Definition of "homeowner" []

• One who owns a home. (noun)

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• "So the basic gist of the plan is to help banks and home-livers (I resist the term homeowner because it is simply inaccurate-in the majority of cases, the banks own these homes, not the people who live in them) gently renegotiate a more realistic arrangement."
• "I skimmed it once in the bookstore and found him making the following absurd claim: that a homeowner is always better off if the price of houses goes up, and also better off if it goes down."
• "People in this country have been led to believe that the homeowner is the one to blame for the level of fraud that's happened."