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noncitizen en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + citizen.

Meanings

1. Someone who is not a citizen.
   • 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. Trump’s efforts to delegitimize the 2024 results if he loses. 2024 May 21, Luke Broadwater, “House G.O.P. Moves to Crack Down on Noncitizen Voting, Sowing False Narrative”, in The New York Times:
   • 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 States.* 2011 April 1, Rubin Carter, The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160:
   • But there is one study that has been interpreted to suggest it is at least possible. It found that between 32,000 and 2.8 million noncitizen voters might have fraudulently cast ballots in the 2008 presidential election. The study, based on a survey of 38,000 people after that election, has been under fire since it was published in 2014. 2017 January 26, Nate Cohn, “Illegal Voting Claims, and Why They Don’t Hold Up”, in The New York Times:

Forms

Deriveds

unlawful non-citizen

Translations (23)

ru негражда́нка (someone who is not a citizen) · ru неграждани́н (someone who is not a citizen) · uk негромадянин (someone who is not a citizen) · de Nichtbürger (someone who is not a citizen) · et mittekodanik (someone who is not a citizen) · lv nepilsone (someone who is not a citizen) · uk негромадянка (someone who is not a citizen) · pl nieobywatelka (someone who is not a citizen) · lt nepilietis (someone who is not a citizen) · sl nedržavljan (someone who is not a citizen) · be неграмадзя́нін (someone who is not a citizen) · fi ulkomaan kansalainen (someone who is not a citizen) · lt nepilietė (someone who is not a citizen) · sl nedržavljanka (someone who is not a citizen) · fr non-citoyenne (someone who is not a citizen) · de Nichtbürgerin (someone who is not a citizen) · fr non-citoyen (someone who is not a citizen) · it non cittadino (someone who is not a citizen) · pl nieobywatel (someone who is not a citizen) · it non cittadina (someone who is not a citizen) · lv nepilsonis (someone who is not a citizen) · sv icke-medborgare (someone who is not a citizen) · be неграмадзя́нка (someone who is not a citizen)