original inhabitants

collocation in English

meaningsoforiginalandinhabitant

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original
adjective
uk
/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/us
/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/
existing since the beginning, or being the earliest form ...
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inhabitant
noun[C]
uk
/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/us
/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/
a person or animal that lives in a ...
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(Definition oforiginalandinhabitantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Today, with increasing land scarcity, no new settlers without descent connection to the original inhabitants are allowed to take up residence in the village.
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Being too poor to pay wages, the veeboeren sought to entrap the original inhabitants in a system akin to slavery.
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In the years that followed, veeboeren took the land, stock and labour of the original inhabitants.
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The agricultural fields surrounding the settlement belonged to the original inhabitants of the area, and no land had been available for distribution.
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In seeking to make a living these settlers destroyed for countless generations the lives of the original inhabitants.
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Above all, perhaps, the recognition that the original inhabitants thought of the landscape in similar terms, and not just as a set of catchment areas to exploit.
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People in the settlement made their livelihoods through informal arrangements to borrow or rent pieces of land from the original inhabitants of the area, but this was no sustainable solution.
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The latter is in fact simply an occupying force, and it must not be allowed to tyrannise and persecute the minority of original inhabitants.
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We are the descendants of the original inhabitants of this island.
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Trading in tin provided the first contact between the original inhabitants of these islands and the outside world.
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Some people joined it first, and are the original inhabitants.
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And no word has been said about the original inhabitants.
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After all, we are the original inhabitants of this island.
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It led to the destruction of the way of life arid many of the lives of the original inhabitants.
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That fact prevented the original inhabitants from multiplying.
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The consequence is a heavy increase in the rate levy, which falls mainly on the original inhabitants and businesses of the receiving local authority.
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We have at last heard the voice of the original inhabitants of these islands.
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They are not the original inhabitants.
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These buildings, extensively equipped with contemporary furniture and artefacts, illustrate many facets of different periods and different occupations of their original inhabitants.
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