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Definition
one who lives or habitually works in a specific placeor:
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
- I looked over to the Radley Place, expecting to see its phantom occupant sunning himself in the swing.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- 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
- The former occupant of these premises, the Faun Tumnus, is under arrest and awaiting his trial on a charge of High TreasonC.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- 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
occupant = someone who held a position
occupant = person who lives in a place
occupant = person
occupant = person who resided
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