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Portuguese
Etymology
From posse (“ownership”) + -eiro.
Pronunciation
Noun
posseiro m (plural posseiros, feminine posseira, feminine plural posseiras)
- someone who has legal ownership of land without a document proving it
2000, Paulo Santilli, Pemongon Patá: território Macuxi, rotas de conflito, Editora UNESP, page 73:Construída a cerca, o posseiro passou a impedir, com ameaças de agressão física, o acesso da população aldeã às matas e às margens dos rios Uraricoera e Parimé, […]- Once the fence had been built, the landholder began preventing, with threats of physical violence, the native population from having access to the woods and banks of the rivers Uraricoera and Parimé,
- (Brazil) someone who tries to adversely possess someone else’s property; squatter
- 2002, Josué Rios, Guia dos seus direitos, Editora Globo, 113:
Também aquele que é apenas posseiro tem direito à proteção de sua posse, usando das ações que citamos acima, podendo usá-las inclusive contra o legítimo proprietário, […]- Those who are just squatters have the right to protect their land, using the legal procedures mentioned above; they can even use them against the legitimate owner,
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