squatting

IPA: skwˈɑtɪŋ

The posture of one who squats.
The act or general practice of occupying a building or land without the permission of the owner.

Examples of "squatting" in Sentences

He is squatting on the floor.
The soldiers are squatting outside.
Amen, I absolutely hate domain squatting and the like.
Brandjacking/Twitter-squatting is an important subject.
The athlete begins the clean by squatting down to grasp the bar.
Never once was the blind man impatient, while he spent hours each day in squatting on his hams and petting Jerry.
As to the name squatting thing, yes, these guys are trying to get away with robbery, but just about everyody is a little bit at fault here.
We've already talked about people walking away from underwater mortgages, but it looks like good ol' fashioned long-term squatting might be back in vogue, since there is now plenty of property to walk in to.
I later found out this was called 'squatting,' and it had been done successfully by other very low-income families and later transformed through several forms of resistance into something called 'homesteading.'
Brandjacking/social media squatting is certainly a serious issue from the POV of users being mis-led or even robbed; but as the Isakson case (and many others) demonstrate, openness and flexibility can have huge benefits, and these can flow in many directions.
We hear also that the people have already in many instances exhibited that propensity common to the habits of common life, which we call squatting, and to which we have always looked forward as one of the evils likely to accompany their emancipation, and calling for the earliest and most serious attention of our Legislature.