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Squatter

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Noun

1. homesteader, nester, squatter

someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it

2. squatter

someone who settles on land without right or title

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Squatter

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noun
1. 
a person who occupies property or land to which he or she has no legal title
2. (in Australia)
a. 
(formerly) a person who occupied a tract of land, esp pastoral land, as tenant of the Crown
b. 
a farmer of sheep or cattle on a large scale
3. 
(in New Zealand) a 19th-century settler who took up large acreage on a Crown lease

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Squatter

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noun
1. 
a person or animal that squats, or crouches
2.  US
a person who settles on public or unoccupied land
see also squat (sense 3) squat (sense 4)
3. 
a person who occupies illegally a vacant house, building, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Squatter

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v. squat·ted, squat·ting, squats
v.intr.
1. To sit in a crouching position with knees bent and the buttocks on or near the heels.
2. To crouch down, as an animal does.
3. To settle on unoccupied land without legal claim.
4. To occupy a given piece of public land in order to acquire title to it.
v.tr.
1. To put (oneself) into a crouching posture.
2. To occupy as a squatter.
3. Sports To lift (an amount of weight) when doing a squat.
adj. squat·ter, squat·test
1. Short and thick; low and broad.
2. Crouched in a squatting position.
n.
1. The act of squatting.
2. A squatting or crouching posture.
3. Sports A lift or a weightlifting exercise in which one squats and stands while holding a weighted barbell supported by the back of the shoulders.
4. Chiefly British The place occupied by a squatter.
5. The lair of an animal such as a hare.
6. Slang A small or worthless amount; diddly-squat.

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