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/ˈɑkjəpˌaɪər/ Listen

noun

Occupier n.

One who occupies, or has possession.

One who follows an employment; hence, a tradesman. (Obs.) "Merchants and occupiers." "The occupiers of thy merchandise."

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Etymology of 'Occupier'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... a house built in 1860, whose first occupier was an Anglo-Indian, the next tenant being an old man and the house then remaining unlet for four years. In 1882, when Captain Morton and big family moved in, there had never, so far as they knew, been any question of its being haunted. Three months afterwards, Miss Morton was ...

— The Unknown Guest • Maurice Maeterlinck

... landlords; and that we have shown that it cannot be the exorbitance of the pecuniary burdens under which he groans, that causes the vast difference between the social condition of the Irish and the English occupier. ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various

... of about twenty cottages, called Maryland, and an ornate Gothic church, partly roofed and panelled with fine old oak taken from the Council Chamber of Crossby Hall, Cardinal Wolsey's palace. The island once had a hermit occupier whose cell and chapel were dedicated to St. Andrew, and when Canute ravaged the Frome Valley early in the eleventh century he carried his spoils to Brownsea. The Castle was first built by Henry VIII for the protection of the harbour, on condition that the town of ...

— Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch • Sidney Heath

... of an enormous economic evil. In England the landlord was, and remains, a capitalist, providing a house and a fully equipped farm to the tenant. In Ireland he was a rent receiver pure and simple, unconnected with the occupier by any healthy bond, moral or economic. The rent-receiving absentee involved a resident middleman, who contracted to pay a stipulated rent to the absentee, and had to extract that rent, plus a profit for himself, out of the ...

— The Framework of Home Rule • Erskine Childers

... the city of London had always acted (as indeed it claimed to be) as the king's Chamber, and the occupier of the throne of England for the time being had never hesitated to draw upon this Chamber whenever he was in need of money. The mode of procedure was nearly always the same. The lords of the treasury would appear some morning before the Common Council, ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe

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