OCCUPIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does occupier mean? 

• OCCUPIER (noun)
  The noun OCCUPIER has 2 senses:

1. someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

2. a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country

  Familiarity information: OCCUPIER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCCUPIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

occupant; occupier; resident

Hypernyms ("occupier" is a kind of...):

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "occupier"):

Alexandrian (a resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria in Egypt))

coaster (a resident of a coastal area)

colonial (a resident of a colony)

dalesman (a person who lives in the dales of northern England)

housemate (someone who resides in the same house with you)

inmate (one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital))

metropolitan (a person who lives in a metropolis)

outlier (a person who lives away from his place of work)

owner-occupier (an occupant who owns the home that he/she lives in)

sojourner (a temporary resident)

stater (a resident of a particular state or group of states)

suburbanite (a resident of a suburb)

tenant (any occupant who dwells in a place)

towner; townsman (a resident of a town or city)

Derivation:

occupy (live (in a certain place))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("occupier" is a kind of...):

man; military man; military personnel; serviceman (someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Derivation:

occupy (march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation)

 Context examples 

“I repeat again,” added Sir Thomas, “that Thornton Lacey is the only house in the neighbourhood in which I should not be happy to wait on Mr. Crawford as occupier.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Becoming, as she then did, the only young woman in the drawing-room, the only occupier of that interesting division of a family in which she had hitherto held so humble a third, it was impossible for her not to be more looked at, more thought of and attended to, than she had ever been before; and Where is Fanny? became no uncommon question, even without her being wanted for any one's convenience.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)