"preoccupier" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1746, The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer, page 622:",
          "text": "Like our Preoccupiers, the Antient^([sic]) Britons, the Indians perform all religious Ceremonies and Mysteries in the deepest Retreat of the Woods; […]",
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          "ref": "1839, John Towers, The Domestic Gardener's Manual, page 154:",
          "text": "The surface-ground was in tolerably good heart — it had been used and manured for vegetable crops; but the sub-soil was wholly artificial, the preoccupier of the spot having converted a saw-yard and timber premises into a garden […]",
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        "A previous occupant."
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  "word": "preoccupier"
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      "form": "preoccupiers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1746, The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer, page 622:",
          "text": "Like our Preoccupiers, the Antient^([sic]) Britons, the Indians perform all religious Ceremonies and Mysteries in the deepest Retreat of the Woods; […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1839, John Towers, The Domestic Gardener's Manual, page 154:",
          "text": "The surface-ground was in tolerably good heart — it had been used and manured for vegetable crops; but the sub-soil was wholly artificial, the preoccupier of the spot having converted a saw-yard and timber premises into a garden […]",
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      ],
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        "A previous occupant."
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  "word": "preoccupier"
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