- a person or thing that squats.
- a person who settles on land or occupies property without title, right, or payment of rent.
- a person who settles on land under government regulation, in order to acquire title.
- a person who occupies property or land to which he has no legal title
- (in Australia)
- (formerly) a person who occupied a tract of land, esp pastoral land, as tenant of the Crown
- a farmer of sheep or cattle on a large scale
- (in New Zealand) a 19th-century settler who took up large acreage on a Crown lease
