homeowner

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English

Etymology

From home +‎ owner.

Noun

homeowner (plural homeowners)

  1. Someone who owns a house.
    • 2009 September 6, Joseph Berger, “Flood Zone Remapping Hits Hard on Long Island”, in The New York Times‎:
      He advised homeowners to get insurance before then so they can be grandfathered in as discretionary buyers of flood insurance in a nonflood zone.
    • 2022 June 22, Selim Algar, “Incensed owner of $8M Florida mansion ransacked by teens wants them prosecuted”, in New York Post‎, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-03:
      The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.
  2. Someone who does not have title to a house, but has possession and is paying for it by instalments.
    • 2007 August 24, “Foreclosure and Taxes”, in The New York Times‎:
      The taxability of forgiven debt is set to become a pressing issue as more homeowners fall behind on their mortgages and face foreclosure.

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