occupant

[ ok-yuh-puhnt ]
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noun
  1. a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.

  2. a tenant of a house, estate, office, etc.; resident.

  1. Law.

    • an owner through occupancy.

    • one who is in actual possession.

Origin of occupant

1
1590–1600; <Middle French occupant, present participle of occuper.See occupy, -ant

Other words from occupant

  • non·oc·cu·pant, noun
  • pre·oc·cu·pant, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for occupant

occupant

/ (ˈɒkjʊpənt) /


noun
  1. a person, thing, etc, holding a position or place

  2. law a person who has possession of something, esp an estate, house, etc; tenant

  1. law a person who acquires by occupancy the title to something previously without an owner

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