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Definition: Occupier |
OccupierNoun1. Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "occupier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references) |
Synonyms: OccupierSynonyms: occupant (n), resident (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: abutting occupier (law), benefit to owner-occupiers (statistics), contract involving full owner-occupier liability (law), crop water rate (food & agriculture, finance), mala fide occupier (law), occupier's water rate (food & agriculture, finance), owner occupier (food & agriculture, real estate), owner-occupier (real estate), property tax (public administration), real-estate tax (occupier) rates (public administration), Single Income Never Married Owner-Occupier (social sciences), wine grower (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inhabitant | Noun: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter. |
Possessor | Noun: possessor, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant; person in possession, man in possession; renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee; zemindar, ryot; tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Occupier |
| Specialty definitions using "occupier": RIDER. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Croatia | Nearly every other instance of restituted property occurred pursuant to a private agreement between the owner and occupier. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Occupier" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.91% of the time. "Occupier" is used about 367 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.91% | 363 | 14,875 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.09% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 367 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "occupier": occupier of the house. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "occupier": occupier-trespasser. | |
Ending with "occupier": owner-occupier. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "occupier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | okupator (occupant), qiramarrës (holder, leaseholder, lessee, occupant, tenant), banor (boarder, denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, inmate, liver, occupant, resident, roomer, tenant). (various references) | |
Arabic | ساكنها, المحتل, المستأجر (lessee, occupant, renter, tenant). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | окупатор (invader, occupant), обитател (denizen, indweller, inhabitant, inmate, occupant, tenant), наемател (charterer, holder, leaseholder, lessee, lodger, occupant, renter, tenant). (various references) | |
Chinese | 领者. (various references) | |
Czech | okupant (invader, occupant), nájemnice, nájemník (inmate, renter, tenant), držitelka, držitel (bearer, holder, incumbent, occupant). (various references) | |
Danish | selvstændig vinavler (owner occupier, wine grower). (various references) | |
Dutch | onrechtmatige bezitter te kwader trouw (mala fide occupier), onrechtmatige bezitter niet tergoeder trouw (mala fide occupier), zelfstandige wijnboer (owner occupier, wine grower), particuliere wijnboer (owner occupier, wine grower), individuële wijnbouwer (owner occupier, wine grower). (various references) | |
Farsi | ساکن (Calm, Denizen, Habitant, Inert, Inhabitant, Inmate, Lodger, Occupant, Quiescent, Quiet, Resting, Static, Stationary), اشغال کننده (Holder, Occupant). (various references) | |
Finnish | vilpillisessä mielessä oleva haltija (mala fide holder, mala fide occupier), viinitarhan omistaja (owner occupier, vineyard owner, vineyard proprietor, wine grower). (various references) | |
French | occupant (occupant, occupying), possesseur, locataire (occupant), habitant (occupant). (various references) | |
German | Besitzer (holder, holders, owner, possessor, possessors, proprietor). (various references) | |
Greek | κάτοχοσ (holder, occupant). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בעל חזק". (various references) | |
Hungarian | lakó (denizen, habitant, inhabitant, inmate, occupant, resident, residential, roomer, tenant), bérlõ (charterer, lessee, occupant, renter, tenant). (various references) | |
Italian | occupante (occupant, occupying). (various references) | |
Manx | cummaltagh (inhabitant, inmate; residential, in-patient). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | occupieray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ocupante (inmate, occupant), locatário (lessee, lodger, occupant, renter, tenant), inquilino (lodger, occupant, renter, tenant), dono (boss, compere, holder, keeper, master, occupant, owner, proprietor). (various references) | |
Romanian | ocupant (holder, occupant, occupationist, occupying), deţinãtor (holder, keeper, occupant, owner). (various references) | |
Russian | жилец (inmate, lodger, occupant, outgoing tenant), арендатор (farmer, holder, leaseholder, lessee, renter, tenant, tenant farmer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | okupator. (various references) | |
Spanish | ocupante (inmate, occupant, usurper), poseedor (bearer, holder, owner, possessor), inquilino (householder, inmate, lodger, occupant, renter, roomer, sitting tenant, tenant), habitante (citizen, denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, inmate, louse, occupant). (various references) | |
Swedish | innehavare (bearer, holder, occupant, owner, tenant). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้ครอบครอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | oturan (dweller, inhabitant, occupant, resident, sedentary, sitting), kullanan (exploiter, occupation, operator, user), işgal eden. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | орендар (co-tenant, farmer, holder, leaseholder, lessee, occupant, renter, tenant), мешканець (denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, inmate, lodger, occupant, tenant), пожилець (lodger, occupant). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người chiếm lĩnh, người chiếm giữ (occupant), người chiếm cứ (tenant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | possessor, possessorem, possessores, possessori. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "occupier": occupiers. (additional references) | |
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"Occupier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: occupa, occupare, occuper, occupie, occupien. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "occupier" (pronounced Ä"kyupī'er) |
| 3 | -p ī' er | umpire. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-o-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: cicero, copier, croupe, cupric, recoup. | |
-3 letters: cerci, ceric, coper, coupe, cripe, croci, croup, curie, curio, occur, ourie, price, ureic. | |
-4 letters: cero, cire, coir, cope, core, coup, croc, crop, cure, ecru, epic, euro, peri, pice, pier, pore, pour, puce, pure, puri, repo, rice, ripe, rope, roue, roup, uric. | |
-5 letters: cep, cop, cor, cue, cup, cur. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-o-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: occupiers. | |
+2 letters: precocious, reoccupied, reoccupies. | |
+3 letters: cupronickel, preoccupied, preoccupies, reoccupying. | |
+4 letters: corpulencies, cupronickels, microcapsule, plutocracies, precociously, preconscious, preoccupying, reoccupation. | |
+5 letters: counterpicket, microcapsules, microcomputer, micropuncture, perspicacious, preoccupation, reoccupations. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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