What's the difference between building and squatter?

Building


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Build
  • (n.) The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
  • (n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
  • (n.) That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
  • (2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (4) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
  • (5) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (6) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (7) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
  • (8) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
  • (9) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
  • (10) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
  • (11) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
  • (12) The fire at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.
  • (13) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (14) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
  • (15) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
  • (16) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
  • (17) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
  • (18) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
  • (19) Mortality rates naturally vary considerably, but in earthquakes, for example, the number of deaths per 100 houses destroyed can give an indication of the adequacy of building techniques.
  • (20) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.

Squatter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title.
  • (n.) See Squat snipe, under Squat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Households in two squatter communities--Meiyo and Karton Kassala--were studied by observation and by interview.
  • (2) At least two successive Kenyan governments have threatened the Sengwer communities and forest squatters with evictions.
  • (3) The tower was first occupied by squatters in 2007, and eventually became home to more than 1,200 families .
  • (4) This study is part of a larger epidemiological study concerned with the health status of children under the age of five carried out in the squatter settlement of Rocinha, and focuses on the nutritional profile of a representative sample of 591 children.
  • (5) It was, I recall, an anarchic traffic jam of ex-squatters, ravers, and proponents of free love that chuntered slowly and messily through the byways and sometimes the highways of Thatcher’s Britain.
  • (6) The ventilatory capacity of the more active children, including those who have lived all their lives in squatter huts on the hillsides, is on average 8 per cent larger than for the inactive children including those who have lived all their lives in tenement flats with lifts.
  • (7) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
  • (8) He promised a crackdown on squatters, a mandatory six-month jail sentence for anyone threatening with a knife, and a promise to allow homeowners and shopowners to use reasonable force to protect their properties.
  • (9) More than 20 homeless people have been sheltering there since the squatters moved into the property in Belgravia on 23 January .
  • (10) A judge has ordered the eviction of a group of squatters from a £15m property in central London bought by a Russian oligarch that they have been occupying for the past week.
  • (11) Ruling the registrar had made "an error of law", the judge said section 144 did not apply to squatter's title because it was enacted to deal with householders who needed rapid police help to get rid of squatters who had moved into their homes whilst they were away.
  • (12) Local authorities took what we thought were vicious steps to repel squatters, putting cement down toilets or ripping them out altogether, but if you could access a property it became possible to do a deal with the council and become a licensed squat, permitted to stay there, often for years.
  • (13) Those properties being targeted have fallen into major disrepair and, in many cases, have been occupied by squatters and attracted antisocial behaviour such as loud parties and drug abuse.
  • (14) Squatters inside the building, a former police station in Beak Street, off Regent Street, accused police of heavy-handed tactics after they were led out by officers who forced their way in after a tense standoff lasting more than three hours.
  • (15) This study explores the extent of mild to significant malnutrition in the squatter settlement of Kampung Baiduri located adjacent to an industrial area in Petaling Jaya.
  • (16) If you are in this position, your rights also supersede what are commonly known as "squatters' rights".
  • (17) The preschool component provides education, food supplements, and medical checkups and treatment to children in the squatter settlements.
  • (18) The result has been that more than 1,000 people living near the town of Eldoret have been classed as squatters and forced to flee what they say has been government harassment, intimidation and arrest.
  • (19) If it is a property that is occupied, or soon to be occupied, then the criminal law will apply and the squatters can be guilty of an offence under Section 7 of the Criminal Law Act if they fail to leave your premises after being asked to do so.
  • (20) An anthropometric study evaluated the nutritional state of pre-school children in the Site C squatter area of Khayelitsha township in Cape Town.

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