squatter
n. 蹲着的人, 擅自占用土地或房屋者 vi. 涉水而过
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词形变化
释义与例句
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1.
One who squats; one who sits down idly.
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2.
One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.
One who occupied Crown land.
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3.
One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.
A poor vagrant; a hobo or beggar; one suffering from extreme poverty.
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4.
A large-scale grazier and landowner.
澳大利亚 历史Boldrewood was a squatter, a magistrate and a commissioner of goldfields and knew thoroughly the life he described in Robbery Under Arms (1888), the story of the bushranger Captain Starlight—first serialised in The Sydney Mail in 1881—and in his numerous other novels, which included The Squatter′s Dream (1890).
In Parliament, at least, the squatters were secure. ¶ In the early 1840s a severe depression threatened livelihoods in all the colonies except South Australia and many squatters resorted to slaughtering their sheep and boiling them down for tallow.
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5.
A squat toilet.
非正式
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1.
comparative form of squat: more squat
词汇关系
同义词 2
上位词 5
相关短语
词源
From squat + -er.
来源：wiktionary