What (who) is resident - definition
3RD-CLASS HEAD OF DIPLOMATIC MISSION
Resident-general; British residents; Resident-General; British Resident; Minister Resident; Resident Minister; Chief Political Resident; Government Resident; Resident general; Special Resident; Minister-Resident; Résident; General-Resident; Resident General; British Residents; Karesidenan; British resident; Special resident; Resident (title); Resident (diplomat)
![The house of a Dutch resident in [[Central Java]] c. 1905](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Het huis van de resident aan de Kanarielaan te Banjoemas. TMnr 60004313.jpg?width=200 "The house of a Dutch resident in [[Central Java]] c. 1905")
![Walter Gudgeon]] looking on, on 7 October 1900.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cook Islands Annexation Ceremony.jpg?width=200 "Walter Gudgeon]] looking on, on 7 October 1900.")
![The French resident general of [[Morocco]] in the 1930s.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morocco Resident General Ponsot.jpg?width=200 "The French resident general of [[Morocco]] in the 1930s.")
![John Hadley]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nawab Mubarak al-Daula of Murshidabad (1770-93) enthroned in durbar.jpg?width=200 "John Hadley]]")
resident
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Residents (disambiguation); Resident (disambiguation); Residents; The Resident
(residents)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The residents of a house or area are the people who live there.
The Archbishop called upon the government to build more low cost homes for local residents...
N-COUNT: usu pl, with supp
2.
Someone who is resident in a country or a town lives there.
He moved to Belgium in 1990 to live with his son, who had been resident in Brussels since 1967.
ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ in n
3.
A resident doctor or teacher lives in the place where he or she works. (BRIT)
The morning after your arrival, you meet with the resident physician for a private consultation.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
4.
A resident or a resident doctor is a doctor who is receiving a period of specialized training in a hospital after leaving university. (AM)
N-COUNT
resident
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Residents (disambiguation); Resident (disambiguation); Residents; The Resident
¦ noun
1. a person who lives somewhere on a long-term basis.
a bird, butterfly, or other animal of a species that does not migrate.
Brit. a guest in a hotel who stays for one or more nights.
US a pupil who boards at a boarding school.
2. N. Amer. a medical graduate engaged in specialized practice under supervision in a hospital.
3. an intelligence agent in a foreign country.
4. historical a British government agent in any semi-independent state, especially the Governor General's representative at the court of an Indian state.
¦ adjective
1. living somewhere on a long-term basis.
having quarters on the premises of one's work.
attached to and working regularly for a particular institution.
(of a bird, butterfly, or other animal) non-migratory.
2. (of a computer program, file, etc.) immediately available in computer memory, rather than having to be loaded from elsewhere.
Derivatives
residentship noun (historical).
Origin
ME: from L. resident-, residere 'remain'.
resident
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Residents (disambiguation); Resident (disambiguation); Residents; The Resident
n. a person who lives in a particular place. However, the term is vague depending on the permanence of the occupation.
See also: residence
Wikipedia
Resident minister
A resident minister, or resident for short, 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.
A resident usually heads an administrative area called a residency. "Resident" may also refer to resident spy, the chief of an espionage operations base.
Pronunciation examples for resident
1. resident.
Black Man in a White Coat _ Damon Tweedy _ Talks at Google
2. resident in the system.
Civil War General-Purpose Computing _ Cory Doctorow _ Talks at Google
3. He's their resident profiler,
Mindhunters (2004)
4. when a twentysomething resident
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5. a permanent urban resident."
Eating Bitterness _ Michelle Loyalka _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of resident
1. He was a resident of Port Republic and a former resident of Bethesda.
2. "While holding Resident A‘s wrist she smacked the back of Resident A‘s hand with her other hand.
3. He was UN‘s Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator and the UNDP‘s Resident Representative in Indonesia before his appointment in Afghanistan.
4. Dutch Ruppersberger (D–Md.) calculated that his state was receiving $4.50 per resident while Wyoming was getting $16 per resident.
5. Kagan, American Enterprise Institute resident scholar.