occupier:
(plural: ‘occupiers‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘cc’ are said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king” — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
occupiers of a room (positive)
a person who occupies (used in a negative sense);
a person (or thing) that lives in a place or building for a long time, usually born there;
an occupant; a tenant;
an inhabitant (used in a positive sense);
a soldier (or soldiers) that goes into the enemy’s area and stays there, especially after defeating the enemy (used in a negative sense),
occupiers of a place (negative)
The occupier/occupant of the old building, an old man with his old dogs and cats, was asked to move out, at least temporarily, so that the government engineers do some tests on the safety of the building.
The illegal occupiers of the government land in our locality are arrested and charged with illegal occupation of government land.
America called Russia ‘occupiers’ and demanded that the Russian troops in Georgia be pulled out immediately.
