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Resident

adjective

Living in a particular place.

Used of animals that do not migrate. Synonym: nonmigratory.

noun

Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there. Synonyms: occupant, occupier.

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. Synonyms: house physician, resident physician.

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... the Etoile cast anchor, than the resident governor sent two soldiers to inquire of the French captain what reason he could assign for stopping at this place, when he must be aware that entrance was permitted to the ships of the India Company only. Bougainville immediately sent an ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century • Jules Verne

... course he had to go - which was a pity, as he was the first person with a sense of humour who ever entered that village as a resident. One could positively talk sense to him, without being regarded as a lunatic. As a rule, you had to feign imbecility there if you didn't want to be considered mad. I had just made up my mind to learn to knit men's ties, instead of babies' socks, when he departed" - and she looked at ...

— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page

... I sustained a severe moral shock. A certain doctor with whom I was acquainted an elderly and much respected resident of King William's Town looked upon the wine when it was red, and became violently uproarious. My ethical orientation became disturbed; all my canons got confused. I had seen this man wearing the insignia of municipal dignity; he had been mayor of his town during ...

— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully

... that the fault was his own; that he should never have received a young man as a resident pupil in the house where there ...

— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... will be when the number of actual residents in the Territory shall justify the formation of a constitution with a view to its admission as a State into the Union. But be this as it may, it is the imperative and indispensable duty of the Government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free and independent expression of his opinion by his vote. This sacred right of each individual must be preserved. That being accomplished, nothing can be fairer than to leave the people of a Territory free from all foreign interference ...

— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various

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