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US
/səˈvɪɫjən/
]
[ UK /sɪvˈɪliən/ ]
[ UK /sɪvˈɪliən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military
civilian clothing
civilian life
NOUN
- a nonmilitary citizen
How To Use civilian In A Sentence
- In 2007, a jury let the Fairford Two off after they had broken into an RAF airbase to ground B-52 planes and prevent, they hoped, potential war crimes against Iraqi civilians.
- Civilian life affords us the luxury of a good deal of deontology — better to let ten guilty men go free, and so on. One Waterboarding Is a Tragedy; A Million Is a Statistic
- The constable was on leave and wearing civilian clothes.
- The rebels were responsible for the mass murder of 400 civilians.
- When faced with mass desertion, regiments often lacked the personnel to pursue the scofflaws, and soldiers could count on the sympathy of civilians willing to give them jobs rather than report them.
- Manufactories are now making more and more civilian GPS receivers.
- The new system "can cover the civilian and military sides," said Xu Shijie, a professor of astronautics at Beihang University in Beijing. Mistrust stalls U.S.-China space cooperation
- Few parts of the aerospace or civilian airline industry bear much relation to free market theory.
- She lives with my grandparents now and has adjusted to civilian life really well. The Sun
- Fund company collection base civilian buy fund, redemptive the poundage when.