Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which squats.
- n. One who settles on new land, particularly on public land, without a title.
- n. Hence One who or that which assumes domiciliary rights without a title.
- n. One who obtains from the government a right of pasturage on moderate terms; also, any stock-owner.
- n. In ornithology, same as krieker.
- To plunge into or through water.
- To make a noise like a flock of wild fowl flapping their wings against or through the water.
Wiktionary
- n. One who squats, sits down idly.
- n. Australia, historical A large-scale grazier and landowner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who squats one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under legal permission and restrictions, before acquiring title.
- n. (Zoöl.) See Squat snipe, under Squat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who settles on land without right or title
- n. someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
Etymologies
- From squat + -er. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“More than 1.3 million Haitians live in squatter camps, facing disgruntled landowners and violent evictions, with no international or government plan to move or house them.”
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“Creating cell and house churches builds on existing social and family networks in squatter communities.”
“Additional benefits are bringing employment to people in squatter cities, recycling lots of electronic components and creating economic development where it is needed most.”
“People in squatter cities pay about $75.00 per year for kerosene.”
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“Our collective priority for the near term must be to evict the Crawford squatter from the White House.”
“Traditional Marxist theory has ignored this phenomenon, for there was no equivalent to Latin American squatter settlements in nineteenth-century Europe; the flow of peasants into the cities occurred at a slower pace and there were more industrial jobs available to absorb new migrants into the working class.”
“Police clash with protesters as long-term squatter camp evicted in U.K.”
“The largest domain squatter of them all, Scott – is godaddy (technically wildwestdomains, but they’re owned by GD so it’s the same bucket of chum).”
“It’s designed as a light source people in squatter citiesand elsewhere who have limited or no power.”
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“And he has been called a squatter by the alleged owner.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘squatter’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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That Inhabits the Abode of Another
Adjective (or noun) designating a human or nonhuman animal that lives in the abode of another
inquiline, Goldilocks, kleptoparasitism, cuckoo, black-headed gros..., house-sitter, endoparasite, entozoon, parasite, hermit crab, squatter
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Squ-
All those fun words that begin with squ-. Be careful; this list is hard to read without some serious eye-crossage.
squid, squab, square, squeegee, squirt, squire, squib, squelch, squabble, squad, squally, squalled and 228 more...
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Day 1
GRE word list
ambivalent, innocuous, extant, contentious, enervate, equivocate, unequivocal, erratic, candid, sedulous, alacrity, confound and 58 more...
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Tunie: Waltzing Matilda
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
"Who'll come a-waltzing matilda with me?"ghost, troopers, thoroughbred, squatter, tucker bag, shoved, glee, jumbuck, matilda, waltzing matilda, billy, coolibah and 2 more...
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Australian Derivation ... or, you kno...
Words I heard there. Or from Australians.
didjeridoo, budgerigar, kangaroo, wombat, kookaburra, echidna, koala, dreamtime, matilda, waltzing matilda, billabong, coolibah and 44 more...
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Tweets
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chained_bear Fight the power! Feb 7, 2007
pamelad We still have the squattocracy in the western distict - remember Malcolm Fraser? Life wasn't meant to be easy. Feb 7, 2007
chained_bear Archaic meaning, Australia: a grazier, or station (ranch) owner. (The meaning of the word changed later in the twentieth century to mean a person who occupies or resides at a property illegally.)
Down came the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred
Down jumped the troopers, one, two, three:
"Whose that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?
You'll come a-waltzing matilda with me."
--A.B. Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda" Feb 6, 2007