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occupier

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oc·cu·py  (ky-p)
tr.v. oc·cu·pied, oc·cu·py·ing, oc·cu·pies
1. To fill up (time or space): a lecture that occupied three hours.
2. To dwell or reside in.
3. To hold or fill (an office or position).
4. To seize possession of and maintain control over by or as if by conquest.
5. To engage or employ the attention or concentration of: occupied the children with coloring books.

[Middle English occupien, alteration of Old French occuper, from Latin occupre, to seize : ob-, intensive pref.; see ob- + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]

occu·pier n.

occupier
Noun
Brit the person who lives in a particular house, whether as owner or tenant
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.occupieroccupier - someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, indweller - a person who inhabits a particular place
Alexandrian - a resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria in Egypt)
coaster - a resident of a coastal area
colonial - a resident of a colony
dalesman - a person who lives in the dales of northern England
housemate - someone who resides in the same house with you
inmate - one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital)
metropolitan - a person who lives in a metropolis
outlier - a person who lives away from his place of work
owner-occupier - an occupant who owns the home that he/she lives in
sojourner - a temporary resident
stater - a resident of a particular state or group of states; "Keystone stater"; "farm staters"
suburbanite - a resident of a suburb
tenant - any occupant who dwells in a place
towner, townsman - a resident of a town or city
2.occupier - a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
military man, serviceman, man, military personnel - someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force; "two men stood sentry duty"
Translations
Spanish occupier [ˈɔkjupaɪəʳ] ninquilino/a
French occupier [ˈɔkjupaɪəʳ] noccupant(e)
German occupier [ˈɔkjupaɪəʳ] nBewohner(in) m(f)
Italian occupier [ˈɔkjupaɪəʳ] noccupante m/f

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Becoming, as she then did, the only young woman in the drawing-room, the only occupier of that interesting division of a family in which she had hitherto held so humble a third, it was impossible for her not to be more looked at, more thought of and attended to, than she had ever been before; and "Where is Fanny?
It was a meanly furnished apartment, with nothing but the contents of the closet to induce the belief that its occupier was anything but a working man; and with no more suspicious articles displayed to view than two or three heavy bludgeons which stood in a corner, and a 'life-preserver' that hung over the chimney-piece.
The broken Sedley would have acted well as the boarding-house landlady's husband; the Munoz of private life; the titular lord and master: the carver, house-steward, and humble husband of the occupier of the dingy throne.
 
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