| 单词 | occupant |
| 释义 | occupant (once / 623 pages) n An occupant is someone who lives or stays at a place for awhile. A lot of your junk mail is addressed "To occupant" because the sender doesn't know who lives at your address. Being an occupant means you're occupying a place. This has nothing to do with owning a house or renting an apartment; if you live there, you're an occupant. There are other occupants too, as in politics. The President is often called "the current occupant of the White House," who replaced the former occupant. That kind of occupant has as much to do with politics as living space. WORD FAMILYoccupant: occupants+/occupancy: occupancies/occupation: occupational, occupations/occupational: occupationally/occupied: occupiedly, unoccupied/occupier: occupiers/occupy: occupancy, occupant, occupation, occupied, occupier, occupies, occupying, preoccupy/preoccupation: preoccupations/preoccupied: preoccupancy, preoccupiedly/preoccupy: preoccupation, preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupying USAGE EXAMPLESTwo occupants in the first house who were sleeping at the time were awakened by the loud crash, but weren’t hurt. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Police say the vehicle became nearly completely submerged and two occupants were trapped. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) State officials declined to release the name of the pilot, or say how many occupants the plane was carrying at the time of its disappearance. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) n someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper occupier, resident nonresident someone who does not live in a particular place Alexandrian a resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria in Egypt) coastera resident of a coastal area coloniala resident of a colony dalesmana person who lives in the dales of northern England housematesomeone who resides in the same house with you inmateone of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital) metropolitana person who lives in a metropolis outliera person who lives away from his place of work owner-occupieran occupant who owns the home that he/she lives in sojournera temporary resident statera resident of a particular state or group of states suburbanitea resident of a suburb tenantany occupant who dwells in a place towner, townsmana resident of a town or city towneetownsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller townie, townyresident of a college town not affiliated with the college denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant a person who inhabits a particular place |
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