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Occupant vs Residence - What's the difference?

occupant | residence |

As nouns the difference between occupant and residence

is that occupant is a person who occupies a place or a position while residence is residence (place where one resides).

occupant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who occupies a place or a position.
  • An owner or tenant of a property.
  • A person sitting in a car or other vehicle.

    • residence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The place where one lives.
  • * Macaulay
    • Johnson took up his residence in London.
  • A building used as a home.
  • The place where a corporation is established.
  • The state of living in a particular place or environment.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
  • The place where anything rests permanently.
  • * Milton
    • But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.
  • subsidence, as of a sediment
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
    • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Related terms

    * reside * residency * resident * residential

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