Inholder

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An indweller, or anything indwelling; inhabitant; occupant.

    "They maintain that the Forest Service has been pointedly harassing them and thousands of other "inholders" across the nation -- people who own property inside areas managed by the government -- in order to discourage them, set up "precondemnation blight" and force them off their land."

  2. 2
    The active forces of nature. obsolete

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"They maintain that the Forest Service has been pointedly harassing them and thousands of other "inholders" across the nation -- people who own property inside areas managed by the government -- in order to discourage them, set up "precondemnation blight" and force them off their land."

Etymology

From inhold + -er.

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