abutter

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US/əˈbʌ.tɚ/

noun

One who, or that which, abuts, specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate.

“the abutters on a street or a river”

RareFirst used First attested in the late 17ᵗʰ century.Scrabble 9

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nounabutter (plural abutters)

plural abutters

  1. One who, or that which, abuts, specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate.First known use First attested in the late 17ᵗʰ century.

    the abutters on a street or a river

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    But said corporation shall not acquire title to any land, nor enter upon any street, until all damages to the owners of land and abutters on any part of a street occupied, or to be occupied, by its structure have been paid or secured[…]

    1886, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME transactions, volume 7

    2015 April 23, James Kinsella writing in The Enterprise, Heritage Hearing Boils Over Residents continually brought up the aerial park, which had been quickly approved by the committee a year earlier after Heritage failed to notify abutters about the proposal. And Mr. Collins continually banged his gavel to cut them off.

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