Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The squatters of Australia collectively; the rich squatters who are interested in pastoral property.

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  • noun Australia, historical Wealthy landowners (squatters) considered as a class.

Etymologies

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From squat +‎ -ocracy.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile in Melbourne we welcomed the squattocracy and had a Gold Rush then lots of handsome Southern Europeans so our gene pool is a lot prettier.

    Tequila Sunrise Ms Robinson 2007

  • They were not his kind of people, the bluff tweedy graziers, the lofty matrons, the toothy, horsy young women, the cream of what the Bulletin called “the squattocracy.”

    The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

  • 'Oh, not out here, my word!' exclaimed a Leichardt'stonian who happened to be one of the old squattocracy.

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

  • The Bossiers and Beechams were leaders of swelldom among the squattocracy up the country, and firm and intimate friends.

    My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

  • It was here that the squattocracy was first successfully attacked.

    Town Life in Australia Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny 1886

  • Some are concerned about the issues of the Irish or the Aborigines or the convicts while others are more interested in the advance of society leaders, government officials or the squattocracy.

    SA Latest News 2010

  • There is a twang in her voice redolent of the Hawkes Bay squattocracy which makes her

    New Zealand Herald - Top Stories newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz 2010

  • There is a twang in her voice redolent of the Hawkes Bay squattocracy which makes her

    New Zealand Herald - Top Stories newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz 2010

  • My experience with historical societies is that some of them like to do a bit of ‘glorifying the ancestors’ - if you want a trip down Smug Alley I have a family history written by one of my mother’s forebears detailing the wonders of the landed squattocracy.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Doing some breakfast radio in a coupla weeks. 2009

  • I can’t really explain this geography in San Francisco terms, but the Cross is the red light district, all heroin and fab little street cafes and brothels and nightclubs, and Elizabeth Bay, which shoves up against it, is old old old money, where everyone’s Little Aunts used to live squattocracy brats like our parents all had Little Aunts, left over from the Great War culling a generation of marriageable men.

    travelling heroes 2008

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  • Though many as felons had crossed the sea

    The wise ones worked and got property.

    So tenure and time

    Erased any crime

    And built a respected squattocracy.

    March 9, 2019