| 单词 |
preoccupant |
| 释义 |
preoccupant, a. and n.|priːˈɒkjʊpənt| [f. pre- A. 3 + occupant.] A. adj. Previously occupying; preoccupying.
1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 56 Least a preoccupant fear possess their spirits. B. n. One who occupies (a place or region) before others; a previous or earlier occupant.
c1826T. Alden in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. (1837) VI. 152 Tools, made of iron,..which, no doubt, were obtained by the tawny pre-occupants of this region from the French. 1832Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 173 Invasions of this kind, attended by the expulsion of the pre-occupants, are almost instantaneous. |

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