[f. SQUAT v. Cf. SQUATTERARCHY.] The class of squatters as a body possessed of social and political importance.
1846. C. P. Hodgson, Reminisc. Austr., 118. Throughout the colony generally, English are the most numerous, then the Scotch, then the Irish, amongst the squattocracy.
1864. Sat. Rev., 19 Nov., 616. The aristocratic element of a large landed proprietary, which is already designated by the ingenious colonial title of a squattocracy.
1886. Mrs. C. Praed, Miss Jacobsen’s Chance, I. i. 7. Female members of the squattocracy.
So Squattocratic a., of or pertaining to the squattocracy.
1854. Melbourne Morning Herald, 18 Feb., 4/5 (Morris). Squattocratic Impudence.
