honest citizen

collocation in English

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honest
adjective
uk
/ˈɒn.ɪst/us
/ˈɑː.nɪst/
telling the truth or able to be trusted and not likely to steal, cheat, ...
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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 ofhonestandcitizenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They accept that maxim which appeals very much to every simplehonestcitizen—more expenditure and less taxation.
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Surely that is not what anhonestcitizenshould have to do to help the police to secure a conviction.
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Think of the simple,honestcitizenwho happens to be a football enthusiast and who has a little smattering of the law.
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Therefore, thehonestcitizenis getting the worst of both worlds.
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My constituents want an effective system of neighbourhood policing to reclaim our streets for thehonestcitizen.
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But that slavery has been proved, and it is the duty of everyhonestcitizento stamp it out.
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To my way of thinking at that moment it was the only question which anyhonestcitizencould be required to answer.
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Work or reparation within the community may produce a different outlook on the part of the offender so that he becomes anhonestcitizen.
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We fail to see coherent, focused, long-term programmes to recapture the streets for thehonestcitizenthrough true neighbourhood policing.
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I pity the motorist who will report his number plate stolen—as he should as anhonestcitizen—because be will be regularly stopped by the police.
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A trade unionist who makes an illegal mistake because he has been wrongly advised would deserve—like any otherhonestcitizen—nothing but sympathy and friendship.
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After all, anhonestcitizenwould conscientiously submit a copy of his or her key, but a criminal would, of course, never do this.
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Nothing outrages thehonestcitizenor taxpayer more than the thought that he or she is being ripped off.
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Planners must start again, as does thehonestcitizen, by doing what is proper and applying to do something before they do it.
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What is the position of thehonestcitizentrying to prevent what he regards in day-time as housebreaking and at nighttime as burglary?
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It should be a step which anyhonestcitizenwould seek to avoid.
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We have a crisis that amounts to a retreat of civilisation and a loss of control of the streets for thehonestcitizen.
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Identification is the friend of thehonestcitizen.
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The fact that others break the law does not give anhonestcitizenthe right to do so.
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There is a continuity of relationship between doctor and patient which one seldom gets—at least, with anhonestcitizen—between, say, a client and a barrister, or solicitor.
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