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US
/ˈsɪtəzən, ˈsɪtɪzən/
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[ UK /sˈɪtɪzən/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪtɪzən/ ]
NOUN
- a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
How To Use citizen In A Sentence
- We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
- The prospectuses and programs of most American colleges and universities claim to educate for citizenry.
- Accompanying the exclusion from the labour market has been a policy of disenfranchising the underclass from full welfare citizenship.
- This is the only country in Europe to deny cancer screening to its citizens.
- The court say that, "to be a citizen it is necessary that he should be entitled to the enjoyment of these privileges and immunities, upon the same terms upon which they are conferred upon other citizens; and unless he is so entitled, _he cannot, in the proper sense of the term, be a citizen_. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting
- In a qui tam action, the citizen filing suit is called a "relator". David Isenberg: ABC J'accuse MEP: There is no there there
- The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens
- It will deliver the promises made in the citizens charter to extend the powers of the four regulators of the privatised utilities.
- Citizenship status would have insulated her from deportation even after her drug conviction.
- The hands-off policy was extended to the structure of citizen participation and the social targeting provisions.