resident1 nounresident2 adjective
residentres‧i‧dent1 /ˈrezɪdənt/ ●●○ S3 W3 AWL noun [countable] 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Residents of Glacier Bay are complaining about the pollution caused by cruise ships.
- Residents of Westville complained about the town's bus system.
- Local residents are protesting about the new road.
- Parking spaces are for residents only.
- And he said the application would be strongly opposed by residents.
- Certain villages were strongholds of cattle thieves and their residents derived a significant portion of their incomes from the cattle trade.
- In the Sunshine state, residents over age 60 cast about 40 percent of the vote.
- Last year, residents and business owners decided to take action.
- She is deeply involved in litigation and negotiations in which the potential stakes for city residents are massive.
- The police have arrested residents for being under the influence of drugs, he said.
- There are also important differences in levels of mobility between rural residents.
THESAURUS
someone who lives in a particular town, country, or state: · In order to become a US citizen, you need to have a Permanent Resident card.· All British citizens have the right to live in the UK.· Good citizens understand that they have a responsibility to the community.
a citizen of a country who is living in another country: · She insisted that foreign nationals were safe in the country.· Russians nationals were ordered to leave.· Her husband is a French national.
someone who lives in a particular street or area: · There have been complaints by local residents about the building work.· She was a resident of Chicago for many years.
someone who was born in a particular country but moved to another country – used when describing a person or their life: · Picasso was a native of Spain, although he spent much of his life in France.
someone who was born in a country that has a king or queen, and has a right to live there: · Northern Ireland citizens are British subjects.
formal someone who is not a legal citizen of the country they are living or working in – used in official contexts: · Employers cannot hire illegal aliens.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who lives in a place all the people in a country or town or area, or the number of people who live in it: · In Ghana 46% of the population is under 16 years of age.· The patients have been isolated to keep the disease from spreading to the rest of the population.population of: · The population of Singapore is almost 3 million.the adult/Muslim/black etc population (=all the people in a place who are adult, Muslim etc): · Ninety percent of the adult population is literate.population growth: · The U.S. has a rate of population growth that is five times that of Europe.
someone who lives in a particular area of a town, a particular street or building etc: · Local residents are protesting about the new road.· Parking spaces are for residents only.resident of: · Residents of Glacier Bay are complaining about the pollution caused by cruise ships.
written one of the people who live in a place, especially in a town or city or in an area of a country: · Copenhagen has about 1.4 million inhabitants.· This is a poor rural area, with only one doctor per 10,000 inhabitants.inhabitant of: · Nearly 36% of the inhabitants of Saudi Arabia are resident foreigners.
someone who lives in a particular country or city and who has the right to be protected by its laws: · The police asked if we were both British citizens.citizen of: · The court's ruling should be of interest to every citizen of Texas.
informal someone who lives in a particular area, especially in a village or small town: · If you get lost just ask one of the locals for directions.· Denver International Airport was built in an area that locals call "Tornado Alley."
someone who lives in a house, flat, or room and regularly pays money to the person who owns it: · Tenants are not allowed to keep pets.· Have you found any tenants for your house yet?tenant of: · Twelve tenants of the Lockwood housing complex are taking part in the lawsuit against their landlord.
formal someone who lives in a particular house, room etc: · They have left all the furniture and carpets in the house for the next occupant.occupant of: · Occupants of the building are understandably upset about the high-rise going up next door.
especially British formal the person who lives in a particular house, flat etc - used especially in official documents: · The document has to be signed by the occupier of every household.owner-occupier (=someone who lives in a house that they own): · The new law affects everyone from tenants to owner-occupiers.
someone who lives in an empty building without paying rent and without having permission to live there: · Police have removed over 50 squatters from the housing estate.· Squatters insist that without their work, the buildings would have deteriorated to the point of being unusable.
someone who goes to live in a place that people have never lived in before: · Many of the earliest settlers here dies from disease and hunger.· Settlers found a plentiful supply of fruit and game in the nearby forests.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The car park is for staff only.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
The car park is for staff only.· She added that Miss Owen had been sacked for asking the elderly residents their views about another member of staff.· The party members attending the session here were mostly middle-aged or elderly California residents.· Polreath, David, elderly resident of Lanrean.· Perhaps local authorities should thankfully accept this solution and turn their attention to the needs of non-dementing elderly residents and community services.· The children were encouraged to talk to the elderly residents about their own childhoods and life experiences.· Some local authorities only support elderly residents in their own homes, whereas two authorities have no directly provided provision.· One authority supports elderly residents solely in voluntary establishments, whereas the other uses a combination of private and voluntary provision.
· But, more tellingly, many legal residents are hastily becoming citizens.· March 20 is the final deadline for legal residents to apply for new Alien Registration Cards to replace those issued before 1979.· It also would open Arizona companies to lawsuits from legal residents who are replaced in their work by illegal immigrants.· S.-domiciled subsidiaries of foreign corporations and by foreigners who are legal residents of the United States.· Kanchanalak is a legal resident and never sent in her application.· Long-term nursing home care would be the only benefit not available as soon as some one became a legal California resident.
· Land costs are $ 700 to $ 850, including meals, seminars, meetings with local residents.· Not surprisingly, the reaction of local residents to the schemes was less than enthusiastic.· At the meetings I attended there were never more than 20 local residents present, most of them women.· The local residents were bitterly disappointed with the decision.· A crowd of thousands of cheering local residents.· In time, the natural succession of plants turned this into an informal landscape which became very popular with the local residents.· The oil company pays no property taxes. Local residents hold only 40 of the 400 or so jobs at the plant.
· He settled in the Washington area in the late 1950s and was a longtime Hillcrest Heights resident.· Mrs Myers, a longtime resident of West River, was born in Roanoke.
· Spraying crops and burning stubble also provoke outcries from nearby residents.· Like Lindbergh Field, Stapleton has been the target of noise complaints and lawsuits from nearby residents.· This produces a lot of propeller noise at the hovercraft terminals, and annoys nearby residents.· Opposed were well over 100 of the nearby residents.· The church said yesterday its objections only reflected the wishes of nearby residents.· Park officials and nearby residents begin assessing damage, as do county emergency management leaders.· But that's upset nearby residents.· And nearby residents reported a six-hour blackout in the pre-dawn hours on Saturday.
· The church should make contact with new residents as soon as possible after their arrival.· I think the arrival of a new resident, John Evans, had begun to focus our restlessness.· With thousands of new residents arriving in Las Vegas each month, the housing market is booming.· But because new residents usually get driver licenses fairly quickly, she said, they will get involved sooner.· From April the rent of new residents will be funded by the council's community care budget.· Swelled by over 300, 000 new residents a year, it now sprawls westward into the endless neighborhoods of Giza.
· Roos today is a friendly village where older residents and newcomers mix very well.· Lou Taylor remembered seeing an older resident just sitting, by the doorway of her house, quietly waiting.· The water supply used to be drawn from an ancient well, remembered still by one or two of the older residents.· Two women with multiple sclerosis, including a 51-year-old Oceanside resident, were found dead in Detroit-area hotels yesterday.· But there are many old residents in the neighbourhood who prefer to stroll along the beach to sitting in front of the goggle-box.· Fish, a 51-year-old Massachusetts resident, joined Citizens in 1992.· The 19-year-old Montverde resident has been treating war casualties since he was 16.
· Wildlife officer Malcolm Ingham with two-year-old barn owl Zuky, a permanent resident at the Wirral park.· Only several months more use of both products will determine which, if either, remains as a permanent resident.· The median age of the 28, 000-plus permanent residents is a vigorous 44.· They also made it more difficult for temporary residents or visitors to become permanent residents.· Q.. What does it take for permanent residents to become a citizens, and how long do they have to wait?· But a week or so in a holiday cottage isn't the same as becoming a permanent resident.· Though legal, recent events raise legitimate questions about the wisdom of accepting donations from permanent residents who can not vote.
· The second myth concerns the attitude that, if rural residents do not like their locations, they can move.· Roads are washing out, and some frightened rural residents already are threatened by overland flooding.· There are also important differences in levels of mobility between rural residents.· As expected, rural residents will value and conserve water if they pay for it.· The projects have drawn fat political donations from construction companies and votes from appreciative rural residents.· Wednesday: Rural residents in western Grand Forks County begin cleaning up as floodwater fades away to the east.· The tribunals were intended to provide a way for rural residents to settle disputes without legal formalities.· Clearly, the life chances of many rural residents would be considerably influenced by the policy adopted.
NOUN· The environmental studies were the hardest challenges for the Marines because of the strong opposition from area residents, he acknowledged.· About 200 area residents also have been hired.· Of them, 850 were Bay Area residents, nearly all exposed to asbestos.· And it provides lists of San Francisco Bay area residents who have handed big bucks to candidates.· Yet for hundreds of San Diego area residents, amateur choral singing is more than a memory, more than a whim.· The median household income for San Francisco area residents was $ 66, 900 last year.· Mrs Ruben, a Washington area resident since 1962, displayed and sold paintings at local galleries.· When developer Peter Makaus applied for a zoning change, area residents began lobbying to save the wash.
· The dead include white farmers, black farm labourers and city residents.· The plan aims to compete with existing insurers to attract young, healthy and employed city residents.· Keeps recreation prices low - free for City residents on low incomes.· And the requirement that stores make every effort to employ Marin City residents has fallen short as well.· Privatization would equalize that by eliminating any say city residents now have.· The property tax the county collects from city residents supplies millions of dollars for sheriff deputies that patrol in the foothills.· She is deeply involved in litigation and negotiations in which the potential stakes for city residents are massive.· But what makes San Diego city residents happiest?
· Symphony telemarketers spend about four hours a night and some Saturday afternoons phoning county residents from undecorated offices in Copley Symphony Hall.· Those of us who live in the city have subsidized county residents long enough.· The center will be open to all county residents.· One of every five non- elderly San Diego County residents lives without any health insurance.· Moreover, county residents have to dial long-distance to Knoxville to get on-line.· Since those days, many Pima County residents have been hauled into the city limits against their will.
WORD FAMILYnounresidentresidenceresidencyadjectiveresidentresidentialverbreside
1someone who lives or stays in a particular place: the residents of Westville2American English a doctor working at a hospital where he or she is being trained SYN registrar British Englishresident1 nounresident2 adjective
residentresident2 ●○○ AWL adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He's our resident expert on computer games.
- the resident conductor at the Oregon Symphony
- By then he was unofficially resident and working abroad, and in uneasy relations with the Soviet authorities.
- I am resident now for almost 18 years.
- Only archers born or resident in Yorkshire are eligible for these.
- Pressed into action, Alvin found it difficult to conceive of himself as a mere resident choreographer.
- Such a lot of them too, with eight children, as well as a resident relative.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He’s our resident expert on computer games.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The car park is for staff only.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
He’s our resident expert on computer games. The car park is for staff only.· X and Y are domiciled, resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.· Note that before an individual is charged to tax under s739 he must be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.· The local authority named must be the authority in whose area the child is ordinarily resident.· That code requires only that the trustees are at no time resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.· Mr X is the settlor, and he is not domiciled, resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.
NOUN· In practice these allocations reflected the scale of existing facilities and their resident populations.· The only exception at present is Gwynedd County Council which is trying to dampen inward migration and retain its resident population.· This area of Falkirk has always had a resident population of these handsome but predatory birds.· The problem was therefore to find means of resettling a resident population apparently becoming more difficult to discharge.
WORD FAMILYnounresidentresidenceresidencyadjectiveresidentresidentialverbreside
1formal living in a placeresident in Many retired British people are now resident in Spain.2[only before noun] living or working in a particular place or institution: a resident tutor The resident population of mental hospitals has fallen by 20%.3[only before noun] belonging to a particular group of people – used humorously: He’s our resident expert on computer games.