patriotic citizen

collocation in English

meaningsofpatrioticandcitizen

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patriotic
adjective
uk
/ˌpæt.riˈɒt.ɪk/us
/ˌpeɪ.triˈɑː.t̬ɪk/
showing love for your country and being proud ...
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citizen
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɪt.ɪ.zən/us
/ˈsɪt̬.ə.zən/
a person who is a member of a particular country and who has rights because of being born there or because of being given rights, or a person who lives in a particular town ...
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(Definition ofpatrioticandcitizenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is the duty of everypatrioticcitizento do what he can to bring it to an end.
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The issue is one that is really a summons, a call, to every trulypatrioticcitizen.
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That should prove an attractive proposition to everypatrioticcitizen.
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If there is any danger of attack, as there was between 1938 and 1939, everypatrioticcitizenought to be ready.
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Thepatrioticcitizencannot afford to give his services because of the competition of the less patriotic.
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Nopatrioticcitizencould wish to see that happen.
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What has happened to thepatrioticcitizen?
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It is as though the tax collector were not armed with any powers of compulsion but relied upon the taxpayer as apatrioticcitizento pay his dues.
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I say that it is the duty of everypatrioticcitizenwho wants to help his country at this time to tell the world those facts.
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This is part of the contract between patriotic citizens and the community.
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The turning out of lights at night has had a very good psychological effect in helping to persuade patriotic citizens to save electricity and gas.
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I am sure that as patriotic citizens they would respond.
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Neither are all the people who are operating it selfless patriotic citizens.
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I do not know that there are any more public-spirited or patriotic citizens than the members of the various friendly societies.
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This makes for fitter, more self-confident, better disciplined and patriotic citizens.
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There can be but one answer from patriotic citizens to a speech of that kind, but cooperation is a two-way term.
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Patriotic citizens loyally co-operated in carrying out the statutory requirements which took the place of the pre-war relationships.
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The gallant and patriotic citizens who undertake this most unpleasant work should receive the treatment, conditions and status to which they are entitled.
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It is true that when the movement of migration was at its height, it did enlist the interest of considerable numbers of patriotic citizens.
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Being patriotic citizens, they accepted that answer.
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