[
US
/ˈskwɑtɝ/
]
[ UK /skwˈɒtɐ/ ]
[ UK /skwˈɒtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
- someone who settles on land without right or title
How To Use squatter In A Sentence
- But nothing prepared them for life in this squatters' community of Tijuana, a city of three million souls that is known as the Wild West of Mexico's northward immigration.
- Secure metal sheets were welded across windows and doors at the former 50-room hotel and restaurant to prevent squatters re-entering the property.
- In fact, this mini-album seems to entirely results of an enthusiastic outburst of energy, nurtured while the man was regularly deejaying at squatters parties during the nineties.
- The doors and windows had been bricked up to prevent squatters from getting in.
- Bourque took his time with the squatters, and a week after the squat, following negotiations, he got the squatters to move into another building on Rachel E.
- Last night I caught just a snatch of it, an interview with an ancient black lady living in one of the squatter towns (informal settlements).
- They are there to fill up space profitably rather than leave it empty, they do not have any squatters' rights when an edible crop is needed. Planning the Organic Vegetable Garden
- Some squatters were incorporated within the local housing orbit, some weren't.
- The peasant family is cramped tightly into a small makeshift shack squatter slum.
- Why are our trained warriors risking their lives to "cajole" a vindictive Shia government to help poor Sunni squatters? Archive 2007-04-01