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Definition

one who lives or habitually works in a specific place

or:

someone presently in a room, car, or seat

or:

someone currently holding a position

The occupant of the home must be warned.

occupant = one who lives in a specific place

the occupant of the room
the occupant of the car
an honorary post whose occupant...
This is Fred Clement, former occupant of the Thomas Hardy chair at Cambridge in the years before it became an Atomic Engineering School.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

occupant = someone who held a position

I looked over to the Radley Place, expecting to see its phantom occupant sunning himself in the swing.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

occupant = person who lives in a place

Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk.
John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men

occupant = person

The former occupant of these premises, the Faun Tumnus, is under arrest and awaiting his trial on a charge of High Treason
C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

occupant = person who resided

The natives of the United States will forestall the rightful occupants of these solitary regions.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
The new occupant of her house doesn't know where she went, but he has heard the story of Zeitoun's rescue.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
Its doglike occupant was running in its sleep.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
The room, which was somewhat larger than his, had two occupants.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
The noise of the machine, of course, prevented its occupants from distinguishing any word, but the menace of the open pursuit was apparent.
Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
Several of the remaining glass columns crack, causing the monstrous occupants to gyrate in agitation.
Susan Ee -- Angelfall
Some places have as many names as they have occupants to name them.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
Some previous occupant had fitted up an oil can with a stovepipe, had made a hole in the wall for the stovepipe.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
"M'ama!" thrilled out the triumphant Marguerite; and the occupants of the box looked up in surprise at Archer's entrance.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
The second week in December, every occupant of Barracks 28 was issued an extra blanket.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
It seemed like every insurgent, maybe every occupant, wanted a piece of the idiot Americans who'd foolishly blundered into Sadr City.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
In the afternoon Franz Wachter's bed has a fresh occupant.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

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