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citizen (s) (noun), citizens (pl)
Someone who is legally a resident of a country, or community, and has the rights and protection of that nation or locality: Tom is a citizen of England and so he speaks British English and he has a right to health care and all of the other privileges that other citizens have.
This entry is located in the following unit: civi-, civ-, cit- (page 1)
(Latin: common people, common multitude; as opposed to the patricians [upper-class citizens] of Roman times)
(international students in scientific areas of study need to possess a solid grasp of English to succeed as scientists or even to lay claim to being scientifically literate citizens of the world)
(international students in scientific areas of study need to possess a solid grasp of English to succeed as scientists or even to lay claim to being scientifically literate citizens of the world)
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old senior citizens
This entry is located in the following unit: Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies (page 15)
senior citizen (s) (noun), senior citizens (pl)
Elderly people; especially, those who are retired and living on pensions: Many of the senior citizens in Marian's urban area are active in social and political groups.
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