squatter
noun
a person or thing that squats.
squatters
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pluralof squatter.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The vans belong to young Israeli squatters who play their own waiting game, smoking cigarettes and milling about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
The corner lot on which the club stands is now surrounded by hundreds of dilapidated and abandoned buildings occupied by squatters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
They may have been given more to do than Lockhart — the Netflix series is excellent — but they are still squatters on space that she cleared, and will own forever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
He said the former library building, which is being repurposed into an Asian Resource Centre, had also had squatters living in it.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
The residents immediately became squatters, scrambling up the steep hillsides to remake their homes and farms on land they didn’t own.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
