to squat
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6.4
- verb
- /skwɑt/
:
ocupar
- Such protests have involved squatting in churches and climbing high-rise cranes.
If you own a vacant building and, and, and people squatted that right, what should happen to them?
- If you own a vacant building and, and, and people squatted that right, what should happen to them?
- We squatted on a couple people.
- And also in this climate, I guess it, it makes less sense to squat and 'cause you're going to freeze there.
- These people was illegally squatting and this this is the people who and they had stockpiled weapons inside this property.
Examples
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Others are forced to squat in corrugated tin structures.
Academic text (2007) -
My grandparents weathered the Great Depression while squatting in a condemned building in our small town.
Blog text (20) -
Woman #3: It looked like one of those buildings people squat in.
Fiction book (1997) -
Where are you squatting now?
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We had some homeless people squatting in here.
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Right now I'm squatting in a basement in Red Hook.
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And squatting in half a mansion is better than paying for some crappy apartment.
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Lori says you're squatting in an abandoned building.
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Others become chronically homeless, taking refuge in shelters, squatting in makeshift or abandoned housing, or sleeping on the streets.
Academic text (2000) -
The family was squatting in an abandoned building since they had nowhere else to go.
Synonyms
11
4.9
To go onto someone else's land without permission
1
5.8
Being on land or property without permission
Antonyms
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Squat used for living in a place without permission comes from the picture of people 'sitting down' and staying in a house. A helpful way to remember is that to squat a building is to sit there and not leave, so it means to occupy without the owner's permission.