squatter

1. One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.Examples: "While settlement in New South Wales was initially confined, many moved outside the boundaries to become squatters, eventually consolidating their originally illegal hold on the land."Australiahistorical

2. One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.Synonyms: informal settlerPhilippines

3. (Australia, historical) A large-scale grazier and landowner.Examples: "Down came the squatter, a'riding his thoroughbred, / Down came policemen, one, two and three. /'Whose is the jumbuck you've got in the tucker bag? / You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.'"; "Boldrewood was a squatter, a magistrate and a commissioner of goldfields and knew thoroughly the life he described in Robbery Under Arms (1888), the story of the bushranger Captain Starlight—first serialised in The Sydney Mail in 1881—and in his numerous other novels, which included The Squatter′s Dream (1890)."; "In Parliament, at least, the squatters were secure. ¶ In the early 1840s a severe depression threatened livelihoods in all the colonies except South Australia and many squatters resorted to slaughtering their sheep and boiling them down for tallow."Australiahistorical

4. (informal) A squat toilet.Examples: "All of the toilets in both the men's and women's sides were squatters."informal