owner-occupied

1. 1.

   lived in by the owner

   “one owner-occupied and three rental apartments”

   Similarinhabited

Questions about owner-occupied

What does owner-occupied mean?

owner-occupied means "lived in by the owner".

How many syllables are in owner-occupied?

owner-occupied has 5 syllables and divides as ow-ne-r-oc-cu-pied under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is owner-occupied a common word?

owner-occupied is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.