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What is a squatter?

What is a squatter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who squats, sits down idly.
  2. One who occupies a building or land without title or permission. [From 1788.]
    1. (Australia, historical) One who occupied Crown land. [From 1828.]
  3. (Australia, historical) A large-scale grazier and landowner.
  4. (informal) A squat toilet.
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The destruction of homes caused by incessant rains in many of the squatter townships that litter our cities has now become an annual event.
Can't we replace the vanquished with the courageous, the Chamberlains with the Churchills, the failed squatter with the successful farmer?
After moving in, I built a raised platform and installed a toilet seat, converting the privy from a squatter to a sitter.
Housing was a serious problem, with half of the population living in squatter huts and only 9 per cent in public housing.
Even the squatter has a great deal of trouble to get hold of a good man as a shepherd or knockabout hand.
They see an open space and build a squatter camp there, and then these mushroom.

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