occupant

Borrowed from Middle French occupant (present participle of occuper) or Latin occupāns, occupantis (present participle of occupō).^[1][2] By surface analysis, occupy +‎ -ant.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒk.jʊ.pənt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.kjə.pənt/
• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˈɒk.jə.pənt/

occupant (plural occupants)

1. A person who occupies an office or a position.

   I cannot say the same of the current occupant of the position

   occupant of the Oval Office

2. A person who occupies a place.
   1. A person sitting in a car or other vehicle.
3. The owner or tenant of a property.
   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     I looked over to the Radley Place, expecting to see its phantom occupant sunning himself in the swing. The swing was empty.

• occupier

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ky.pɑ̃/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

occupant

1. present participle of occuper

occupant (feminine occupante, masculine plural occupants, feminine plural occupantes)

1. occupying

occupant m (plural occupants, feminine occupante)

1. occupant (tenant of a property)
2. occupier; occupying forces (one who occupies, particularly with respect to a foreign government controlling the territory of another)

   Near-synonym: envahisseur

• “occupant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

occupant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of occupō