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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
resident
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
long-stay patient/resident
resident physician
residents' association
women/men/residents etc only
▪ The car park is for staff only.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
elderly
▪ 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.
legal
▪ 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.
local
▪ 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.
longtime
▪ 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.
nearby
▪ 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.
new
▪ 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.
old
▪ 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.
permanent
▪ 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.
rural
▪ 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
area
▪ 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.
city
▪ 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?
county
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ordinarily
▪ 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
population
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He's our resident expert on computer games.
▪ the resident conductor at the Oregon Symphony
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resident

Resident \Res"i*dent\ (-dent), a. [F. r['e]sident, L. residens, -entis, p. pr. of residere. See Reside.]

  1. Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.

  2. Fixed; stable; certain. [Obs.] ``Stable and resident like a rock.''
    --Jer. TAylor.

    One there still resident as day and night.
    --Davenant.

Resident

Resident \Res"i*dent\, n.

  1. One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.

  2. A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
resident

mid-15c., "an inhabitant, one who resides," from resident (adj.). Meaning "medical graduate in practice in a hospital as training" first attested 1892, American English.

resident

late 14c., "dwelling, residing," from Old French resident and directly from Latin residentem (nominative residens), present participle of residere "to sit down, settle" (see reside).

Wiktionary
resident

a. 1 Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate. 2 Based in a particular place; on hand; local. 3 (context obsolete English) Fixed; stable; certain. 4 (cx computing of memory English) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory. n. person, animal or plant live at a location or in an area.

WordNet
resident
  1. adj. living in a particular place; "resident aliens" [ant: nonresident]

  2. used of animals that do not migrate [syn: nonmigratory] [ant: migratory]

resident
  1. n. someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there [syn: occupant, occupier]

  2. a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital; "the resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital" [syn: house physician, resident physician]

Wikipedia
Resident

Resident may refer to:

  • Resident, a person who maintains residency (domicile) in a given place
  • Resident, a person who has tax residence in a country or jurisdiction
  • Resident, a patient at a long-term care facility
  • Resident module, a program that stays in memory throughout the lifetime of a computing session
  • Resident bird, a bird that does not migrate
  • Resident (medicine), a stage of postgraduate medical training
  • Resident (pharmacy), a stage of postgraduate pharmaceutical training
  • Resident (Second Life), a member of the Second Life community
  • Resident spy, a spy who operates in a foreign country
  • Resident (title), the title of certain colonial and/or diplomatic officials who represented their state with diplomatic status, with low rank in the West, or in a protectorate or colonial entity;
in the arts
  • The Residents, an American avant garde music and visual arts group
  • Resident (magazine), an Austrian music magazine
  • The Resident, a 2011 film starring Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Christopher Lee
Resident (title)

A Resident, or in full Resident Minister, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country. A representative of his government, he officially has diplomatic functions which are often seen as a form of indirect rule.

Resident (magazine)

Resident (styled as resident) was an Austrian music magazine with a strong focus on the German-speaking drum-and-bass industry.

Usage examples of "resident".

The question presented was whether a judgment rendered by a New York court under a statute which provided that, when joint debtors were sued and one of them was brought into court on a process, a judgment in favor of the plaintiff would entitle him to execute against all, and so must be accorded full faith and credit in Louisiana when offered as the basis of an action in debt against a resident of that State who had not been served by process in the New York action.

Ada wished there were a way to capture what she was hearing in the way an ambrotype captures images, so it could be held in reserve for the benefit of a future whose residents might again need access to what it stood for.

Jose Barreda, the Father Provincial of the missions, in a curious letter under date of August 2nd, 1753, tells the Marquis of Valdelirios that he fears not only that the 30,000 Indians resident in the seven towns may rebel, but that they may be joined by the Indians of the other reductions, and that it is possible they may all apostatize and return to the woods.

They reported that during this time the Reverend Massey, previously the resident vicar, arrived and took his place, ready to depart with the handful of staff who remained, presumably, to close the building.

That canceled a huge part of the debt we were running up, and in parallel with that we divested some other assets to holding companies and reassigned share ownership of the core company to Amethi residents.

Once in a while, Simpson would let general surgery residents do a proximal anastomosis, just to throw them a bone.

This resident wanted to do an end-to-end anastomosis of the bowels, removing a big section and then reconnecting it.

Sir John Bowring then demanded, that as Canton was included in the five ports opened by the treaty of 29th of August, 1842, such facilities for commerce as existed at the other four ports should be opened to British residents at Canton.

Moab, originally a Mormon enclave, once denied by miners, boasted its own brewpub, and residents and tourists could pull their thousand-dollar bikes up to espresso stands all over town.

Early focus groups showed he was so right, residents would start putting malathion on their cereal.

Numerous traders of that nation have shops opened throughout the islands, their business being carried on by one of their own countrymen, generally the principal person of the concern, who remains resident at Manilla, while his various agents in the country keep him advised of their wants, to meet which he makes large purchases from the merchants, and forwards the same to his country friends.

British merchant, resident at Manilla, was very much blamed by his countrymen for not conforming to the customs of the country in this respect.

At Metro, no radiation therapy residents were on call in the hospital at night.

A lot of the married residents at Metro were running around with nurses or having affairs with somebody on the outside.

Mark remembered him vividly from his days as a resident at NYCH when the man served as outgoing chairman of the Obstetrics Department prior to retirement.