previous occupant

collocation in English

meaningsofpreviousandoccupant

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previous
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/us
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/
happening or existing before something or ...
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occupant
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɒk.jə.pənt/us
/ˈɑː.kjə.pənt/
a person who lives or works in a room ...
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(Definition ofpreviousandoccupantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprevious occupant

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The tenant generally could not move into any other decontrolled dwelling in those days because the landlord, having got thepreviousoccupantout, sold it.
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I moved into a property in the mid-1970s and found that thepreviousoccupanthad subscribed to a large number of esoteric gentleman's publications.
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Thepreviousoccupantwas in the post for a few weeks, although at least he got promoted.
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I might be lucky and find that some electricity has been left over by apreviousoccupantof the room, hut, unfortunately, that rarely happens.
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Is it because thepreviousoccupantmade such a mess of it?
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Indeed, he said it was an immoral transaction and wondered whether anypreviousoccupantof this great office had ever so blotted his copybook.
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They had just moved into rented accommodation, and there was an existing gas supply there, but they were refused because thepreviousoccupanthad tampered with the meter.
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I believe that all that is done is to tell candidates in round figures what the private practice brought in to thepreviousoccupantof the post.
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One cannot pick up a house and take it somewhere else, so it is possible to reach the occupant or thepreviousoccupantin one way or another.
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The site also includes a former farmhouse converted by thepreviousoccupantof the site into a villa.
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The family added a coal shed, a feature nopreviousoccupanthad needed, on the north (rear) elevation.
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If an acacia thorn has not been opened by apreviousoccupant, the queen gnaws a circular hole to enter the thorn cavity.
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The letters are from apreviousoccupantof the house.
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The water park utilized a lot of buildings left over from the land'spreviousoccupant.
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Inside, she finds a manuscript of thepreviousoccupantand uses it to learn how to survive on the island.
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She relocates to a remote cottage which appears to be haunted by apreviousoccupant.
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This meant that when a newly deceased was placed within, the bones and dust of thepreviousoccupant were sifted through the grate into the coffin below.
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Key posts were left unfilled as their previous occupants were recalled, dismissed and\\or arrested.
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Disused or abandoned sites, however, inevitably carry with them a sense of the past pertaining to the lives of the previous occupants and/or the former usage of the site.
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Ford's spaceship itself he obtained by jumping from a building and falling into it, itspreviousoccupant having accidentally pressed the wrong sort of eject button.
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