Austr. and U.S. [f. SQUATTER sb.1 2.] The collective body of squatters.
1855. Geo. W. Clarke, in Triweekly Washington Sentinel (10 Jan.), 21 June, 3/2. The settlers in this [Kansas] Territory are losing all respect for the Indian department, and ere long all its authority will be lost. ‘Squatterdom’ will carry everything before it.
c. 1866. Political Parody (Morris). The ranks of squatterdom.
1873. Contemp. Rev., XXII. 701. The enormous domains of the old squatterdom.
1890. Spectator, 22 Nov., 741/2. The scene is laid in Victoria and from the picture of squatterdom given by the book [etc.].
