[ˈɒkjʊp(ə)nt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person who resides or is present in a house, vehicle, seat, etc., at a given time
(e.g: the previous occupant of her room)


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Origin:
late 16th century (in the legal sense ‘person who establishes a title’): from French, or from Latin occupant- ‘seizing’, from the verb occupare