- 1占屋者；違建戶（未經許可住進空屋或占用土地的人）。台灣比較接近的概念是「占住空屋的人」或早年的「違章建築住戶」。
A squatter is someone living in an empty building, or on a piece of land, that they do not own and do not pay rent for. The key idea is occupying without permission — not paying no rent because you are a guest, but taking a place because it stood empty. In Britain the word is bound up with a long history of people moving into abandoned houses, and it can be said with sympathy (people with nowhere else to go) or with anger (people taking someone's property), depending on who is speaking. In many countries whole neighbourhoods are described as squatter settlements — informal housing built on land the residents do not hold title to. In American English the word also has an older, gentler history from occupying frontier land, and in Australia 'squatter' historically meant a big sheep farmer who had taken up huge areas of land, so it can even sound wealthy there. Ordinary spoken use also stretches it as a joke — the cousin who has been on your sofa for a month is a squatter.
組成squat (to sit on your heels — and, later, to settle on land that is not yours) + -er (a person who does it).
同家族的字
- squatthe verb: to crouch, and to occupy a place without right
- squattingthe activity itself — 'squatting is a criminal offence there now'
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
squatternoun/ˈskwɒ.tə/
- 1
One who squats; one who sits down idly.
- “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—!"
- 2
historicalOne who occupies a building or land without title or permission.
- 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.
- 3
One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.
- 4
historicalA large-scale grazier and landowner.
- Down came the squatter, a'riding his thoroughbred, / Down came policemen, one, two and three. /'Whose is the jumbuck you've got in the tucker bag? / You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.'
- 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).
- 5
informalA squat toilet.
- All of the toilets in both the men's and women's sides were squatters.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。