Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that occupies a position or place: the occupant of the honorary professorial chair; the occupants of a beehive.
- n. One who has certain legal rights to or control over the premises occupied; a tenant or owner.
- n. Law One that is the first to take possession of something previously unowned.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who occupies; an inhabitant; especially, one in actual possession, as a tenant, who has actual possession, in distinction from the landlord, who has legal or constructive possession.
- n. More specifically, in law, one who first takes possession of that which has no legal owner.
- n. A prostitute.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who occupies a place or a position.
- n. An owner or tenant of a property.
- n. A person sitting in a car or other vehicle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing.
- n. obsolete A prostitute.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
Examples
“President Obama, unlike the former White House occupant, is an adult, capable of honest reflection.”
“This issue was recently addressed by David Viano and colleagues, who work at ProBiomechanics LLC, a Michigan firm specializing in occupant kinematics and injury causation, published last month in Traffic Injury Prevention.”
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“With the Winter Issue comes the opening of a new wing, the HENDERSON LABORATORY, in which one occupant is given free reign to experiment with new and unusual ideas throughout the duration of the season.”
“In a car crash involving a modern vehicle, everything happens before the occupant is even aware of the collision.”
“Every time I see a "pro-life" bumper sticker I wonder if the car's occupant is also prolife when it comes to capital punishment.”
“I was recently involved in a warrant where the occupant is on disability benefits, £300 per week, rent and council tax paid by yours truly.”
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“In this country, a VP [with the exception of the current occupant] is not a CO-president.”
“Not only that, Obama -- reflecting the agonizing number of economic potholes and his inability to get rid of them -- is increasingly being viewed by Wall Street as a non-achiever, a veritable misfit when it comes to concocting a meaningful plan to revitalize the economy and a likely one-term occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
“The story The Voice in the Night, for instance, concerns a couple shipwrecked on an island whose only occupant is a corrupting fungus.”
“By naming off the various heathen occupants of the Middle East who preceded the Christian occupants, who were then succeeded by the Muslim occupants, you imply that the current occupant is the rightful occupant.”
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