squatter

squatter

1. joku joka valtaa luvatta (alueen tai) rakennuksen; joku joka asuu jossakin sopimuksetta; talonvaltaaja

Esimerkkejä:

This building was taken over by 'squatters'.

'Squatters' have fixed up numerous abandoned buildings where they have been living.

Your rent expired three months ago, yet youre still living here: you're a 'squatter'.

Synonyymisanakirja

squatter

tunkeilija, tunkeutuja, häiritsijä, tungettelija, uudisasukas, uudisraivaaja, maanvaltaaja, asukas, asuttaja.

Rimmaavat sanat

squatter rimmaa näiden kanssa:

bitter, babysitter...

Katso kaikki

Englannin sanakirja

squatter englanniksi

1. One who squats, sits down idly.

2. (RQ:Chmbrs YngrSt)

“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,(..)the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

3. One who occupies a building or land without title or permission. (defdate)

4. puhekieltä One who occupied Crown land. (defdate)

5. 2004, James Jupp, The English in Australia, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=n63TaXC5TpEC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=%22squatter%22 %22squatters%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=U8iEEyt2OV&sig=B6JhQa9ljrDJeM1LBOrDlh6ncjI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=p9NiUNnwA-2ziQeD3ICoCQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22squatter%22|%22squatters%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false p.62:

While settlement in New South Wales was initially confined, many moved outside the boundaries to become squatters, eventually consolidating their originally illegal hold on the land.

6. puhekieltä A large-scale grazier and landowner.

7. 1970, George Sampson, The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, 3rd Edition, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gS3RoUYJSi8C&pg=PA757&lpg=PA757&dq=%22squatter%22 %22squatters%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=sLaS9XMuMR&sig=H846EWEnB2kKOerdiEa6meMqBMU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gPxiUKMW5o2IB43mgdAE&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22squatter%22|%22squatters%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false p.754:

w:Thomas Alexander Browne|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).

8. 1993, (w), Michael Cathcart (abridging editor), Manning Clark′s History of Australia: Abridged by Michael Cathcart, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=PYpNYjr_xQEC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=%22squatter%22 %22squatters%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=UMEK0vWSK2&sig=rkT-LPD5ABIUkpTsktYFUBDZMkM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=p9NiUNnwA-2ziQeD3ICoCQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22squatter%22|%22squatters%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false p.218:

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.

9. 2010, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Peter Carey: A Literary Companion, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=duIZeX4S7O4C&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=%22squatter%22 %22squatters%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=rnR9qWTdxB&sig=jrI2d5F4NnpaSLkzmZJW8hWg3nc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=p9NiUNnwA-2ziQeD3ICoCQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22squatter%22|%22squatters%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false p.233:

His dealings with squatter R. R. McBean and superintendents Hare and Nicolson amaze the 16-year-old, who has little experience with the wealthy privileged class.

10. puhekieltä A squat toilet.

11. 2012, Randall L. Erickson, Traveling Business Class, p.54:

All of the toilets in both the men's and women's sides were squatters.

12. to squat

13. to be, to crash at a place

On va squatter chez toi ou chez moi ?

14. to tie up

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