occupier

See also: Occupier

English

Etymology

From Middle English occupier, occupiour, from occupien + -er (equivalent to occupy +‎ -er) or Middle French occupier, occupiour.

Noun

occupier (plural occupiers)

1. One who occupies, particularly with respect to a foreign government controlling the territory of another.

Derived terms

• owner-occupier

Related terms

• occupant
• occupancy
• occupation

Translations

one who occupies

• Albanian: okupator (sq) m
• Arabic: مُحْتَلّ m (muḥtall)
• Armenian: օկուպանտ (hy) (ōkupant)
• Azerbaijani: işğalçı (az)
• Belarusian: акупа́нт m (akupánt), акупа́нтка f (akupántka)
• Bulgarian: окупа́тор m (okupátor), окупа́торка f (okupátorka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佔領者 / 占领者 (zh) (zhànlǐngzhě)

• Crimean Tatar: işğalci
• Czech: okupant (cs) m
• Danish: besætter c
• Dutch: bezetter (nl) m
• Estonian: okupant
• Finnish: miehittäjä (fi)
• French: occupant (fr) m, occupante (fr) f
• Georgian: ოკუპანტი (oḳuṗanṭi)
• German: Besatzer (de) m, Besatzerin f, Okkupant (de) m, Okkupantin f
• Italian: occupante (it) m or f
• Kalmyk: эзгәч (ezgäç)
• Kazakh: басқыншы (basqynşy)
• Kyrgyz: оккупант (okkupant), баскынчы (baskıncı)
• Latvian: okupants m
• Lithuanian: okupantas m
• Macedonian: окупа́тор m (okupátor), окупа́торка f (okupátorka)
• Maori: kaiwheta
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: okkupant m

  Nynorsk: okkupant m

• Pashto: اشغالګر m (ešǧālgar)
• Persian: اشغالگر (fa) (ešğâlgar)
• Polish: okupant (pl) m, okupantka f
• Portuguese: ocupante (pt) m
• Romanian: ocupant (ro) m, ocupantă (ro) f
• Russian: оккупа́нт (ru) m (okkupánt), оккупа́нтка f (okkupántka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оку̀па̄тор m

  Roman: okùpātor (sh) m

• Slovak: okupant m
• Slovene: okupator m, okupatorka f
• Swedish: ockupant (sv) c
• Tajik: ишғолгар (išġolgar)
• Turkish: işgalci (tr)
• Ukrainian: окупа́нт m (okupánt), окупа́нтка f (okupántka)
• Urdu: قابِض m (qābiz)
• Uyghur: ئىشغالىيەتچى (ishghaliyetchi)
• Uzbek: okkupant (uz), ishgʻolchi
• Vietnamese: người chiếm giữ