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nonresident

nonresident adjective: not resident; not residing in the place in question.

Adjective

nonresident (not comparable)

  1. Not resident; not residing in the place in question.
    • a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands
    • The Trump administration’s tactics are highly unusual, said Andrew O’Donohue, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who studies clashes between courts and elected leaders around the world.2025 March 20, Amanda Taub, “‘This is worse’: Trump’s judicial defiance veers beyond the autocrat playbook”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025
    Synonyms:
    alien, foreign

Noun

nonresident (plural nonresidents)

  1. One who is not a resident; an alien; a foreigner.
    Synonyms:
    outlander
  2. A person living in a country who is not a legal permanent resident of that country.

nonresident meaning in Tamil

nonresident in Tamil

நாடோடி

Synonyms of nonresident

All synonyms of nonresident

Forms of nonresident

Adjective
alternative formnon-resident
Noun
pluralnonresidents

Origin of nonresident

From non- + resident.

From Middle English non-resident, nounresident, equivalent to non- + resident.

Questions about nonresident

What does nonresident mean?
Nonresident means not resident; not residing in the place in question.
What is nonresident in Tamil?
Nonresident in Tamil is நாடோடி. See Nonresident meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nonresident?
Nonresident can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonresident in the dictionary

  1. nonresetting
  2. nonresidence
  3. nonresidences
  4. nonresidencies
  5. nonresidency
  6. nonresident
  7. nonresidental
  8. nonresidenter
  9. nonresidenters
  10. nonresidential
  11. nonresidentiary

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