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How to pronounce squatter in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms homesteader, nester
Type of colonist, settler
Type Words
Type of interloper, intruder, trespasser
Derivation squat

Examples of squatter

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He notes that it usually costs about $1,000 in legal fees to evict one squatter.
From the time.com
It's like the squatter who occupies a really nice house in a nice neighborhood.
From the washingtontimes.com
One squatter, known only as Katherine, recalled a man brewing beer in the kitchen.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
This idea that Gordon Brown is a squatter is totally unfair and totally unfounded.
From the guardian.co.uk
Geeta Nagar is a squatter village based beside the Indian Navy compound at Colaba.
From the en.wikipedia.org
She figures the odds are high that a squatter has left a door or window open.
From the time.com
By default, they would go to blueapple.com, and that ended up being a squatter site.
From the techcrunch.com
Normally I wouldn't encourage any squatter but some people do leave themselves open.
From the guardian.co.uk
Housing couldn't cope and shanty towns and squatter camps accommodated the overspill.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
More examples
  • Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
  • Someone who settles on land without right or title
  • (squatting) knee bend: exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
  • Squatter is a board game that was launched at the Royal Melbourne Show in 1962, invented by Robert C. Lloyd. With more than 500,000 games sold in Australia alone, it became the most successful board game ever developed in Australia. ...
  • In Australian history, 'squatter' referred to those who occupied large tracts of Crown land in order to graze livestock. Initially often having no legal rights to the land, they gained its usage by being the first (and often the only) Europeans in the area.
  • Squatting consists of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use. ...
  • (Squatters (TV series)) Squatters is an online sitcom about two 20-somethings, Hank and Alex, in New York City who get fed up with paying rent and decide to live without an apartment. They each take a unique approach to their housing dilemma. ...
  • One who occupies a building or land without title or permission
  • (squatting) The act or general practice of occupying a building or land illegally