permanent inhabitant

collocation in English

meaningsofpermanentandinhabitant

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permanent
adjective
uk
/ˈpɜː.mə.nənt/us
/ˈpɝː.mə.nənt/
lasting for a long time or ...
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inhabitant
noun[C]
uk
/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/us
/ɪnˈhæb.ɪ.tənt/
a person or animal that lives in a ...
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It merely gives to the patient one safeguard to prevent his becoming apermanentinhabitantof the institution.
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Its lastpermanentinhabitantdied in 2000, although there was still a family of four living in a nearby valley.
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The available sources allow us to distinguish ' permanent inhabitants ' from ' pastoralists ', and to identify their distinctive patterns of household formation.
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The testament referred to here was drawn up in 1869 by a priest, a member of the permanent inhabitants' group.
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By contrast, the group of permanent inhabitants appears to have been more concerned with establishing a fund for the new couple that could support independent conjugal households (neolocal postmarital residence).
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This interpretation rested on the assumption that the established pattern of domestic organization had been ' disrupted ', in effect, by the socio-economic difficulties experienced by the permanent inhabitants.
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There are no permanent inhabitants in the hinterland, which is only visited at certain seasons by nomadic tribesmen.
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Is the casual to be placed in the same building, in the same dormitory it may be, with the permanent inhabitants of the poorhouse?
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It would be ridiculous to grant sovereignty to an island that is barren, without any resources and with perhaps no, or at least only 100 or so, permanent inhabitants.
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Fewer than 20% of the residents of the watersheds are permanent inhabitants.
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There were no permanent inhabitants, but houses contained canoes and fishing gear, suggesting the island was used as a temporary residence by fishing parties.
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As there are no permanent inhabitants on the islands, there is no legislative council and no elections are held.
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Most of the islands are today parkland, with a handful of permanent inhabitants.
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A reasonable estimate of the actual population of the village itself is 50 permanent inhabitants.
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It has an area of 5412 km2 with approximately 451,005 permanent inhabitants, and incorporates 16 municipalities.
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The low-lying island was inhabited from prehistoric times to 1962, when the last of its permanent inhabitants abandoned it for new homes on the mainland.
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It has had no permanent inhabitants since 1945.
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The first record of permanent inhabitants was in the 1836 census when 12 inhabitants were living in the town.
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There are about 900 permanent inhabitants on the islands, and 350 people work there year round.
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Formerly a fishing community, the island now has few or no permanent inhabitants, hosting instead a number of summer residents.
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