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Squatters had taken over the downstairs part, cooking on fire stones in the verandah and throwing out their rubbish onto the courtyards and grounds.†
p. 35.5 *

squatters = people who live in an unoccupied place without the legal right
The squatters, timid and half-starved, had moved out as soon as they had been asked.†
p. 35.8
They were an immensely tall people; and, as Metty told me with awe, they were used to being carried around on litters by their slaves, who were of a smaller, squatter race.†
p. 53.5
The squatters and campers in the street seemed to have gone into hiding.†
p. 72.4

squatters = people who live in an unoccupied place without the legal right
The cites filled up, and new ones were built, though nothing that was done could cope with the movement of people from the villages; we never lost the squatters and campers in our central streets and squares.†
p. 86.9
There were the cites and the squatters' settlements (some of them I was driving into for the first time) with their hills of rubbish, their corrugated dusty lanes, and a lot of old tires lying in the dust.†
p. 115.4
And to leave the Domain and drive back to the town, to see the shacks, acres and acres of them, the rubbish mounds, to feel the presence of the river and the forest all around (more than landscaping now), to see the ragged groups outside the drinking booths, the squatters' cooking fires on the pavements in the centre of the town— to do that drive back was to return to the Africa I knew.†
p. 123.9
I saw the empty spaces of the Domain, and the squatters from the villages camping just outside; and my thoughts were of Yvette and her life on the Domain.†
p. 174.1
To me it all felt far away—the nightclub, the town, the squatters, the expatriates, "the situation of the country"; everything had just become background.†
p. 177.6
A familiar building; officials I knew and could palaver with; people whose faces I understood; one of our old disinfected taxis; the well-known lumpy road to the town, at first through bush which had distinguishing features, then past the squatters' settlements.†
p. 253.5

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(1) (squatter)
someone who lives in an unoccupied place without the legal right

In most countries, if squatters are able to stay long enough, they will acquire legal title.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, squatter can refer to a type of insect or to a person who is crouching.

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