occupier

/ (ˈɒkjʊˌpaɪə) /

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noun

British a person who is in possession or occupation of a house or land

a person or thing that occupies

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How to use occupier in a sentence

But what Ibish fails to tell you is that Resolutions 242 and 338 never branded Israel as an “unlawful occupier” or an “aggressor.”
Are Critics Of Israeli Occupation Getting Nervous?|David Suissa|March 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A place where the impact of 45 years of daily, grinding, ugly occupation—on both occupied and occupier—is worth nary a word.
Missing In AIPAC's 'How To Lobby' Videos|Emily L. Hauser|March 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Never mind that legally, public property in occupied territory should serve the local public, not the occupier.
Bibi Grows a Backbone|Gershom Gorenberg|January 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
“They gave me this,” said occupier Shawn Carrie on Wednesday, swirling a big glass of whiskey.
Far From the Streets, the Bold-Faced Names Rub Shoulders With the Wall Street Occupiers|Jeff Smith|March 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Aiming his ramped-up energies at a young female occupier, his antics descended into play fighting.
Far From the Streets, the Bold-Faced Names Rub Shoulders With the Wall Street Occupiers|Jeff Smith|March 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The acts to prevent the landholder from oppressing the occupier, and those for the encouragement of tillage, failed.
Landholding In England|Joseph Fisher
He is occupier of a farm of considerable extent, but he does not venture to give us the results of his own experience.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850|Various
It is of the same type and pattern for all their orders, but varying in size according to the gradation in rank of the occupier.
The English Village Community|Frederic Seebohm
Rackrent; an excessive rent of a farm, so high as to allow to the occupier a bare and poor subsistence.
English As We Speak It in Ireland|P. W. Joyce
A few rooms only were furnished, but their appearance indicated the taste and pursuits of its occupier.
Henrietta Temple|Benjamin Disraeli

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