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US
/ˈsɪtɪzənɹi/
]
[ UK /sˈɪtɪzənɹi/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪtɪzənɹi/ ]
NOUN
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the body of citizens of a state or country
the Spanish people
How To Use citizenry In A Sentence
- Between 500 and 300 B.C., there developed within the body of the citizenry, a division between two social groups or classes: patricians and plebeians.
- The prospectuses and programs of most American colleges and universities claim to educate for citizenry.
- They were regarded as the main tool for keeping citizenry informed and engaged in building a unified nation.
- As the citizenry hurried up the steep streets of Citadel in a tide of rumour and fear, the family made its own way to the assembly ground. A TIME OF WAR
- And when the anger moves from more easily dismissible protesters in Lower Manhattan to a larger swath of the American citizenry, comments like Perry's "I don't care about that" will not be received well. Mitchell Bard: Income Inequality Is the Achilles Heel in the GOP Strategy to Demonize Occupy Wall Street
- The call for more of these every time there is a serious accident seems to be the gut response from citizenry and officialdom alike.
- After your children married and had children of their own, you were relegated to grandparenthood and looming senior citizenry. Kristen Houghton: Women's Relationships Aren't Age-Specific Anymore
- When your toooo busy accepting $$$ from lobbyist, the welfare of the citizenry is nae important. Graham: Dems engaging in 'seedy Chicago politics'
- `Upon his return from the wars the weary warrior is greeted by the indifference not to say hostility of an ingrate citizenry. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
- I am one who believes that despite years of errors in judging, laxness of citizenry in guarding, and legal wrangling in the following years, ... the constitution is clear and means today what it meant then — no government is empowered to get in the way of owning and carrying a gun. The Volokh Conspiracy » NRA Convention report