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owner-occupied
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
owner-occupied
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
housing
▪ An extra £750m will be used before the end of 1992/93 to buy up some empty properties in the owner-occupied housing sector.
▪ While the scope for profitable investment in manufacturing industry was limited, the owner-occupied housing market seemed ideal for loan capital.
▪ The vast majority of owner-occupied housing in Britain is unsuitable for people with major physical disabilities.
sector
▪ A large proportion of dwellings constructed beyond the cities since 1960 have been in the owner-occupied sector.
▪ There are constraining elements affecting the owner-occupied sector, and those impinging on social housing.
▪ This will result in fewer sales of new houses in the owner-occupied sector and construction firms will then build fewer new houses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A large proportion of dwellings constructed beyond the cities since 1960 have been in the owner-occupied sector.
▪ An extra £750m will be used before the end of 1992/93 to buy up some empty properties in the owner-occupied housing sector.
▪ In 1990, movers had settled in 12 percent of 5. 7 million owner-occupied units.
▪ Only four million homes were owner-occupied 40 years ago compared with 15 million today.
▪ Only Torbay, with its high proportion of elderly and retired persons in owner-occupied accommodation, is more poorly provided.
▪ This is typically true in the case of taxes on land, personal property, and owner-occupied residences.
▪ Two factors are mainly responsible for movement from the owner-occupied to local authority sectors - unemployment and marital breakdown.
▪ While the scope for profitable investment in manufacturing industry was limited, the owner-occupied housing market seemed ideal for loan capital.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
owner-occupied

occupied \occupied\ adj.

  1. Engaged; in use; being used by a person and not free for use by someone else; as, the wc is occupied. Opposite of free, available, and unoccupied.

  2. Inhabited, lived-in, tenanted; having residents; -- of dwelling units. [Narrower terms: owner-occupied] WordNet 1.5]

  3. Overrun, taken over; -- of countries or territories; as, occupied France. Opposite of unoccupied.

  4. Busy; actively or fully engaged in some activity; -- of people. Opposite of idle.

    Syn: employed, engaged.

owner-occupied

owner-occupied \owner-occupied\ adj. lived in by the owner; -- of dwellings.

WordNet
owner-occupied

adj. lived in by the owner; "one owner-occupied and three rental apartments"