What is "squatters"

Usage examples of "squatters".

It had to be a con of some kind, but that was so obvious even squatters would see it.

Maybe whoever placed the call for the squatters was getting a cut and had called somewhere else entirely.

Half the appeal of the West End would be its air of decay, and the squatters would fit right in.

Maybe I could learn something from what the squatters had seen and heard, what the rent collectors had said.

West End talking to squatters, and damn it, I knew it was a waste even while I was doing it.

The small one was a slick-hair, face rebuilt and wired, and the consensus was that he thought the only thing better than him was sex, and he knew that all the women of all the human-inhabited worlds were eager to try combining the two, even including some of the female squatters, which seemed pretty extreme.

The squatters seemed to be used to the quiet, but it gave me a little trouble at first.

Even if the tourists were bothered by the squatters, which I doubted they would be, there were always roofports.

I could give the squatters back their money, tell them it was out of my league, and stop worrying about the fare off-planet or a future spent scraping at radioactive rocks.

In lonely settlements and on stations, the inhabitants and the squatters prepared carefully against any attack or surprise.

However, this bad habit of squatters or natives will end in the destruction of these magnificent trees, and they will disappear like the cedars of Lebanon, those world monuments burnt by unlucky camp fires.

The inhabitants of towns, colonists and squatters at stations, are hereby cautioned to be on their guard, and to communicate to the Surveyor-General any information that may aid his search.

In Victoria, New South Wales, and Southern Australia, there are more than three thousand stations, some belonging to squatters who rear cattle, and others to settlers who farm the ground.

The squatters had heard of the catastrophe at Camden Bridge, but felt no uneasiness about the escaped gang.

Next morning very early, they took leave of the young squatters, with hearty thanks and a positive promise from them of a visit to Malcolm Castle when they should return to Europe.