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- noun Plural form of
squatter .
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Examples
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One of the FEC squatters is Donald McGahn, who is doing his level best to eviscerate the agency from the inside.
Melanie Sloan: Why Won't President Obama Take on the FEC? Melanie Sloan 2010
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Contrast modern economic views of property rights as a necessary foundation for growth, and as a specific popular example, Hernando deSoto's recommendations to title squatters to land/property ownership, with Peru as an example.
Eminent Domain and Property Rights, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Seems like it would be a great way for domain squatters to fence off large portions of the domain namespace.
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If you leave your house vacant for a few weeks, does that entitle squatters to take it over?
The Great Book Bank Robbery - Its All About Rights Martyn Daniels 2009
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Soon I will bug-bomb the crap out of the room -- not Katibug bomb, she can handle that all on her own ... but we'll scour the 8 legged and six legged squatters from the room, just in case.
Another Day, another book....another HUH? deep_bluze 2004
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Some tenants were (or became) squatters; it was just as difficult to remove squatters from a property as it was to remove paying tenants who stayed longer than the term of their lease and refused to leave.
Attorney, anyone? 2004
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There are certain "squatters 'rights" peculiar to mexico, and it appears the university is attempting to protect their rights to this property.
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But what did the Golden Mountain squatters know about the armies of Turkish migrants that had come before their own — namely, Seljuks and Ottomans?
The Coming Anarchy 1994
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But what did the Golden Mountain squatters know about the armies of Turkish migrants that had come before their own — namely, Seljuks and Ottomans?
The Coming Anarchy 1994
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By squatters is meant people who have just gone into the edges of the jungle, cleared small areas, and existed there by the raising of poultry, vegetables, etc.
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