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resident (s) (noun), residents (pl)
1. A person who lives or dwells in a place.
2. A physician who joins the medical staff of a hospital as a salaried employee for a specified period to gain advanced training; usually, in a particular field, being in full-time attendance at the hospital and often living on the premises.
3. A diplomatic representative, inferior in rank to an ambassador, living in a foreign embassy.
4. Something which is encoded and permanently available to a computer user, as a font in a printer's ROM or software on a CD-ROM.
5. A computer program that is currently active or being available in a computer memory.
This entry is located in the following units: -ent (page 9) re-, red- (page 6) sed-, sedat-, -sid, -sess (page 4)
(Latin: city: big town, metropolitan area; citizen: a legal resident or inhabitant)