owner-occupier

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householder | Business English

householder
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈhaʊshəʊldər/us
PROPERTY
the person who owns or is in charge of a house:
Householders need to take out home contents and buildings insurance.

Examples of householder

householder
By contrast, the proportion of individuals who lived as solitary householders was much lower than the proportion of households formed by living on their own.
Of the latter, 512 were adult males eligible for labour service (namjong) and the rest were the wives of householders and other female adults.
Telephone numbers were also provided to each householder to make further alternative arrangements for inspection of premises, if required.
In turn, the subsidy will benefit more waste-pickers who have a higher marginal utility of income than householders.
In addition to encouraging drain trapping, the drainage manuals consistently exhort the householder to adopt a rigorous program of sewer surveillance.
Each householder was instructed in the proper operation of the trap and participated in the study by turning the traps on at sunset.
If the householder was not at home, his or her wife/husband was selected, failing that any other family member older than 14 years.
As might be expected, aggregate mortgage debt is positively correlated with the proportion of householders who have mortgages (correlation = 0.78).
All householders were provided with dates of each monthly inspection and alternative dates to ensure that all premises were inspected each month.
First, each person is classified as a householder or not.
By encouraging householders to take a participatory role in the process of waste removal, these guides helped to demystify modern sewerage.
What the householder expelled as waste returned as dangerous gases.
A total of 1170 householders out of 2878 living in the area, were randomly selected and included in this study.
As noted above, in 1881 householders were asked to record whether they had retired from business.
It was indeed the solitary householders who suffered most often from unemployment, low income, ill-health and other deleterious circumstances.
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