For a time, he was a squatter in the abandoned building down the street.
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Squatter
//ˈskwɑ.təɹ//
Synonyms for "squatter" (50 found)
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28 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- незаконно заселил се noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Catalan
2 entries- ocupa noun (one occupying a place without permission)
- okupa noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Dutch
3 entries- kraakster noun (one occupying a place without permission)
- kraker noun (one occupying a place without permission)
- occupant noun (one occupying a place without permission)
French
1 entries- squatter noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Galician
1 entries- okupa noun (one occupying a place without permission)
German
3 entries- Hausbesetzer noun (one occupying a place without permission)
- Landbesetzer noun (one occupying a place without permission)
- Mietnomade noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Greek
1 entries- καταληψίας noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Ido
1 entries- squatter noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Indonesian
1 entries- penghuni liar noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Italian
2 entries- abusivo noun (one occupying a place without permission)
- occupatore abusivo noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Latin
1 entries- agripeta noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Malay
1 entries- setinggan noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Māori
1 entries- kainoho kōkuhu noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Polish
2 entries- dziki lokator noun (one occupying a place without permission)
- squatter noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Portuguese
1 entries- okupa noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Russian
1 entries- скво́ттер noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Spanish
2 entries- okupa noun (one occupying a place without permission)
- paracaidista noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Swedish
2 entries- husockupant noun (one occupying a place without permission)
- ockupant noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Turkish
1 entries- toprak-konducu noun (one occupying a place without permission)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Tom is a squatter.
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A squatter lived in the abandoned house.
Source: tatoeba (11793445)
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
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