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单词 occupant
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occupantn.

Brit. /ˈɒkjᵿp(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈɑkjəp(ə)nt/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French occupant, occuper; Latin occupant-, occupāns, occupāre.
Etymology: Partly < Middle French, French occupant a person who occupies (1478–80 in premier occupant : see note below), use as noun of present participle of occuper (compare -ant suffix1), and partly < classical Latin occupant-, occupāns, a person who occupies, also in legal sense, use as noun of present participle of occupāre occupy v.With first occupant (see quots. 1578 at sense 1a, 1708 at sense 1a) compare Middle French premier occupant (1478–80).
1.
a. A person who occupies, resides in, or is at the time in a place; a person occupying or holding in actual possession property (esp. land, or an office or position); an occupier.figurative in quot. 1578.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > occupier
occupiera1325
occupant1578
1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 157 When seeing him selfe preuented of his amorous attemptes (although he were the first occupant) by this Frenche knight, whome he thought seemed vniustly to put hys sythe into an other mans haruest.
1615 G. Buck Third Universitie of Eng. xii, in E. Howes Stow's Annales (new ed.) 971/2 All these noble Tenantes and occupants were thus exturbed, dead, and gon.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Vvv4 Retaining a third part of the profits to himself, and leaving two thirds to the Occupants.
1708 E. Arwaker Truth in Fiction iii. li. 266 Where no previous Right do's Titles grant, Nature leaves Things to the first Occupant.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. i. 10 The most universal and effectual way of abandoning property, is by the death of the occupant.
1823 J. Marshall Writings upon Federal Constit. (1839) 264 [The Indians] were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil.
1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland iv. 91 The sacrilegious occupant of the English throne.
1883 R. S. Wright in Law Times Rep. 50 273/2 The voter was the occupant of two rooms only in the house.
1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps iii. 58 The only occupants of the carriage were an old shepherd and his dog.
1987 R. Guy And I heard Bird Sing xix. 149 The place had the feel of being deserted—a ghost city where all occupants had died.
b. Law. A person who takes possession of something having no owner, and so establishes a title to it.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal possession > [noun] > occupation as constituting title > one who takes or occupies without title
occupant1600
1600 W. Fulbecke Direct. Study Lawe f. 57v The occupant, that is in playne tearmes to hym that can seise them, as things which are by nature feræ naturæ, as beasts, birds, or fishes, being in theyr owne libertie.
1629 Vse of Law 55 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light This land [goeth]..to the party that first entreth; and he is called, an Occupant.
1646 Bp. J. Hall Balme of Gilead 195 Whose shall those things be..? perhaps a strangers, perhaps (as in case of undisposed Lands) the occupants.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xvi. 259 Belonging therefore to nobody..the law left it open to be seised and appropriated by the first person that could enter upon it..under the name of an occupant.
1844–75 J. Williams Real Property Law (ed. 11) i. 20 The person who had so entered was called a general occupant.
1990 J. H. Baker Introd. Eng. Legal Hist. (ed. 3) xxi. 430 The distinction between the limited property of the freeholder in unreclaimed wild animals or things on his land, and the interest of the occupant or captor, was reconciled in the medieval period.
2. A prostitute. Cf. occupy v. 8. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute
meretrixOE
whoreOE
soiled dovea1250
common womanc1330
putec1384
bordel womanc1405
putaina1425
brothelc1450
harlot?a1475
public womanc1510
naughty pack?1529
draba1533
cat1535
strange woman1535
stew1552
causey-paikera1555
putanie?1566
drivelling1570
twigger1573
punka1575
hackney1579
customer1583
commodity1591
streetwalker1591
traffic1591
trug1591
hackster1592
polecat1593
stale1593
mermaid1595
medlar1597
occupant1598
Paphian1598
Winchester goose1598
pagan1600
hell-moth1602
aunt1604
moll1604
prostitution1605
community1606
miss1606
night-worm1606
bat1607
croshabell1607
prostitute1607
pug1607
venturer1607
nag1608
curtal1611
jumbler1611
land-frigate1611
walk-street1611
doll-common1612
turn-up1612
barber's chaira1616
commonera1616
public commonera1616
trader1615
venturea1616
stewpot1616
tweak1617
carry-knave1623
prostibule1623
fling-dusta1625
mar-taila1625
night-shadea1625
waistcoateera1625
night trader1630
coolera1632
meretrician1631
painted ladya1637
treadle1638
buttock1641
night-walker1648
mob?1650
lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651
lady of pleasure1652
trugmullion1654
fallen woman1659
girlc1662
high-flyer1663
fireship1665
quaedama1670
small girl1671
visor-mask1672
vizard-mask1672
bulker1673
marmalade-madam1674
town miss1675
town woman1675
lady of the night1677
mawks1677
fling-stink1679
Whetstone whore1684
man-leech1687
nocturnal1693
hack1699
strum1699
fille de joie1705
market-dame1706
screw1725
girl of (the) town1733
Cytherean1751
street girl1764
monnisher1765
lady of easy virtue1766
woman (also lady) of the town1766
kennel-nymph1771
chicken1782
stargazer1785
loose fish1809
receiver general1811
Cyprian1819
mollya1822
dolly-mop1834
hooker1845
charver1846
tail1846
horse-breaker1861
professional1862
flagger1865
cocodette1867
cocotte1867
queen's woman1871
common prostitute1875
joro1884
geisha1887
horizontal1888
flossy1893
moth1896
girl of the pavement1900
pross1902
prossie1902
pusher1902
split-arse mechanic1903
broad1914
shawl1922
bum1923
quiff1923
hustler1924
lady of the evening1924
prostie1926
working girl1928
prostisciutto1930
maggie1932
brass1934
brass nail1934
mud kicker1934
scupper1935
model1936
poule de luxe1937
pro1937
chromo1941
Tom1941
pan-pan1949
twopenny upright1958
scrubber1959
slack1959
yum-yum girl1960
Suzie Wong1962
mattress1964
jamette1965
ho1966
sex worker1971
pavement princess1976
parlour girl1979
crack whore1990
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie In Lectores sig. B Whose sences some damn'd Occupant bereaues.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F5 He with his Occupant, Are cling'd so close, like dew-wormes in the morne, That he'le not stir.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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