People occupying Crown land in order to graze livestock, regarded as a social group or class.
the bourgeoisie began to upset squatterdom's domination when they changed the land laws
Example sentencesExamples
- Men occupying official positions in the graziers' associations came with a powerful whiff of squatterdom.
- The European settler demand for labour was to a large extent satisfied through squatterdom rather than wage labour.
- A perpetual squatterdom would be a perpetual disgrace to our science of colonisation.
- They were ready to take that step forward from the crude improvisations of the pioneer into the splendours of squatterdom.
- The new constitution extended electoral boundaries to the outer reaches of squatterdom.