owner-occupier

1. 1.

   an occupant who owns the home that he/she lives in

   Broaderresident

Questions about owner-occupier

What does owner-occupier mean?

owner-occupier means "an occupant who owns the home that he/she lives in".

How many syllables are in owner-occupier?

owner-occupier has 5 syllables: ow-ne-r-oc-cu-pier. The stress falls on "r-oc".

Is owner-occupier a common word?

owner-occupier 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.