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occupier|ˈɒkjʊpaɪə(r)|
Also 5 -our.
[f. as prec. + -er1, or weakening of AF. occupiour.]
One who occupies, in various senses.
1. One who takes, or (more usually) holds, possession; the person who holds or is in actual possession of (a piece of property, esp. a house or land, or a place, position, or office); a holder, occupant.
[1381Act 5 Rich. II, Stat. i. c. 9 Occupiours des biens..de diverses persones. Ibid. c. 10 Occupiours des biens ou terre tenantz.] 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. v. (Skeat) I. 63 Fairnesse of fieldes, ne of habitacions,..maie not bee rekened as riches, that are thine owne, for if thei be bad, it is great sclander and villanie to the occupier. 1450Rolls of Parlt. V. 186/1 By the handes of the Fermours, Collectours or Occupiours, of the said subsidie and ulnage. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. cxlix. 137 He had ben occupyer of a kynges rome by y⊇ name only x. yeres. a1618Raleigh (J.), If the title of occupiers be good in a land unpeopled, why should it be bad accounted in a country peopled thinly? 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 52 [The] Prince..in all India is sole Proprietor of Lands; allowing the Occupiers no more than a bare Subsistence. 1753Scots Mag. Feb. 92/2 Some occupier of the premisses. 1863Fawcett Pol. Econ. xi. vii. (1876) 616 The local rates fall with the greatest severity upon the occupiers of houses.
†b. A dweller, resident (in a place). Obs.
1545Brinklow Complaynt 43 b, To euery citie acording to the nomber of the occupyers in the same.
†2. One who uses, employs, or deals in (something); one who practises or follows (a specified calling or occupation). Obs.
1537Cromwell Let. to M. Throgmorton in Froude Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 45 A merchant & occupier of all deceits. 1548Gest Pr. Masse in H. G. Dugdale Life App. i. (1840) 71 He wold..delyver it [the one talent] to the well occupyers of the fyve. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 4 b, All my Auncestours were occupiers of husbandry. 1611Bible Ezek. xxvii. 27 The occupiers of thy merchandise.
†b. esp. One who employs money or goods in trading; a trader, dealer, merchant. Obs.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 211 All occupiers almost suche gile deuise In euery chaffer. 1535Coverdale Ezek. xxvii. 25 Thy maryners, thy shipmasters,..thy occupiers (that brought the thinges necessary). 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 1134 When they have given out their money unto occupiers and merchaunt men. 1611Barry Ram Alley ii. in Hazl. Dodsley X. 308 He will..Lie faster than ten city occupiers Or cunning tradesmen.
▸ An agent of military occupation.
1854Times 13 July 9/4 The Western Powers have already made up their minds, Austria has done the same (namely, to take Russia's place in the Principalities as occupier for the present, and protector for the future). 1866H. Wheaton Elements Internat. Law iii. 438 Whoever takes a title from the occupier, takes it subject to the results of the war. 1946Internat. Affairs 22 239 This rising against the German occupier was a more truly national movement than the Risorgimento. 2002Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 3 Mar. i. 7/6 Such pamphlets..were used by U.S.-backed rebels during the war against Soviet occupiers in the 1980s. |