owner-occupier n Brit a person who owns or is in the process of buying the house or flat he lives in ?owner-?occu?pied adj ?owner-?occu?pation nCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014