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单词 private citizen
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private citizen
5. A civilian as distinguished from a soldier or police officer, or from a member of some other specialized (usually state-organized) profession or group. Sometimes more fully private citizen.
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1533 Fabyans Cronycle (new ed.) I. vii. ccxliii. f. cixx/1 Iohn erle of Huntyngeton..spedde hym into Normandye, and so ayded the cytezens and the soldyours of Roan.
1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iii. 87 b Citizens, Souldiers, Souldiers Wiues, and Pages, laye at it daye and night: insomuch that it was quickly dispatcht.
1634 N. C. German Hist. Continued vi. 29 A Clergie man, or citizen, or souldier.
a1683 A. Sidney Disc. Govt. (1698) iii. xiii. 309 This Sanction, to which every man, whether Magistrate or private Citizen, was subject.
1712 Dutch Generosity & Eng. Gratitude 28 At Two a Clock in the Morning the Drums beat to assemble as well the Citizens as Soldiers.
1777 Westm. Mag. July 381/1 General Washington did..propose, a general exchange of all prisoners of war..viz. ‘officers for officers of equal rank, soldier for soldier, and citizen for citizen’.
1833 Law Mag. 9 78 While private individuals are to consider only their duties as private citizens the soldier is bound by military as well as civil law.
1862 W. C. Harris Prison-Life Tobacco Warehouse Richmond ii. 46 The guard..will have no conversation with citizens or prisoners.
1921 C. Gill Govt. & People xii. 156 The whole system favours the official against the ordinary citizen.
1977 Time 11 Apr. 45/3 Many of the desaparecidos were innocent citizens abducted and murdered by soldiers and police in mufti.
2010 C. S. Smith & L.-C. Hung Patriot Act iii. 82 Terrorists..primarily kill citizens, not soldiers.
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