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noncitizen

noncitizen noun: someone who is not a citizen.

Noun

noncitizen (plural noncitizens)

  1. Someone who is not a citizen.
    • It can be very difficult to hire a noncitizen.
    • Prison Is a Place Called Hell Trenton State Prison is a nasty, stinking, medieval cubbyhole that was built in 1849 for noncitizens and mules, eight years before the Supreme Kangaroo Court under Chief Racist Taney declared the black man in American should not be considered a citizen of these United...2011 April 1, Rubin Carter, The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160

Examples of noncitizen in a sentence

  • It found that between 32,000 and 2.8 million noncitizen voters might have fraudulently cast ballots in the 2008 presidential election.2017 January 26, Nate Cohn, “Illegal Voting Claims, and Why They Don’t Hold Up”, in The New York Times:
  • Republicans are pushing legislation to crack down on voting by noncitizens, which happens rarely and is already illegal in federal elections, in a move that reinforces former President Donald J.2024 May 21, Luke Broadwater, “House G.O.P. Moves to Crack Down on Noncitizen Voting, Sowing False Narrative”, in The New York Times:

Forms of noncitizen

pluralnoncitizens

Origin of noncitizen

From non- + citizen.

Words formed from noncitizen

Questions about noncitizen

What does noncitizen mean?
Noncitizen means someone who is not a citizen.
How do you use noncitizen in a sentence?
It found that between 32,000 and 2.8 million noncitizen voters might have fraudulently cast ballots in the 2008 presidential election.
What part of speech is noncitizen?
Noncitizen is a noun.
What is the plural of noncitizen?
The plural of noncitizen is noncitizens.

Words near noncitizen in the dictionary

  1. noncircumvention
  2. noncircus
  3. noncirrhotic
  4. noncitation
  5. noncities
  6. noncitizen
  7. noncitizens
  8. noncitizenship
  9. noncitizenships
  10. noncitric
  11. noncitrullinated

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