occupier
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- noun
- /ˈɑkjəˌpaɪər/
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fuerza ocupante
- To some extent, form and content reflect the rules imposed by the occupiers.
- Nazi occupiers
- imperial occupiers
- Japanese occupiers
I mean, they hated them and they wanted nothing to do with the German occupiers.
- I mean, they hated them and they wanted nothing to do with the German occupiers.
- Despite having more men though, the Toplita Uprising was not entirely suppressed by the occupiers.
- And two, a lot of the Arab nationalists didn't want to send their kids to to England or France because they were the occupiers.
- What it means is for people who think of Israel as an occupier who stole land that needs to go away, that this should be all Palestine.
- And also giving the occupiers what they want, which is divesting from Israel.
- And remember, we said the Oscar Goths were pretty reasonable occupiers, would be destroyed by the Romans themselves.
Examples
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All over the world, people came to see the United States not as heroic... ...liberators but brutal occupiers.
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But no French or Dutch suicide bombers targeted Nazi occupiers in the early 1940s.
Academic text (2015) -
If you rule as occupiers, you will be met with disaster, I promise.
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Now, we are the occupiers.
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So the idea is that there's a European occupier sitting in Palestine.
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Direct contact with the Israeli occupier was restricted to the people in Sinai who remained there.
Academic text (2005) -
In June of the same year, the German occupiers ordered Jews in the occupied zone to wear the Star of David.
Academic text (2006) -
The Dutch tried to colonize it in the 1870s; Japanese occupiers came in during World War II.
Blog text (4) -
Now Polish patriots looked to Napoleon as their saviour, praying that his victories against their occupiers would lead to the rebirth of a Polish state.
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Many local residents resent the foreign occupiers for their strict control over everyday life.
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Etymology
Occupier comes from the Latin verb occupare, 'to seize' or 'to take', and this is the same idea behind words like occupy and capture. So, an occupier in a military sense is a force that has taken control of a country or city.