What's the difference between nester and squatter?
Nester
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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.