sole occupant

collocation in English

meaningsofsoleandoccupant

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sole
adjective[before noun]
uk
/səʊl/us
/soʊl/
being one ...
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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 ofsoleandoccupantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In a block of flats in my constituency thesoleoccupantis an elderly lady.
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He was thesoleoccupantof the aircraft.
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Seven households were individuals and 10 consisted of asoleoccupant65 years of age or older.
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The chick evicts bona fide residents of the parasitized nest, thus becoming thesoleoccupant.
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About 24.70% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.90% consisted of asoleoccupant65 years of age or older.
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He was thesoleoccupantof the craft.
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The pilot, who was thesoleoccupantof the airplane, was fatally injured.
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Warzycha later scored his 234th goal and becomesoleoccupantof this spot.
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The pilot was thesoleoccupantof the plane.
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Prior to 2006, it was thesoleoccupantof the building, and now occupies approximately 500000sqft m2 of office space.
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In 1998, the museum began restoration as thesoleoccupantof the building.
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The pilot (soleoccupant) escaped unharmed.
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They are the sole occupants of a site, to which the consumer has driven three or four miles.
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Subsection (b) will allow sole occupants of properties to be exempt from the issue of warrants for the clause 1 offence, which cannot be right.
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Three crew members, the sole occupants, died.
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