private citizen

collocation in English

meaningsofprivateandcitizen

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private
adjective
uk
/ˈpraɪ.vət/us
/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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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 ofprivateandcitizenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprivate citizen

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Music printing was an expensive process unavailable to theprivatecitizen.
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In this site, theprivatecitizentakes on the role of candidate, displaying a public 'self' designed to convince viewers that he is a worthy president.
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If you do that as aprivatecitizen, it is a criminal offence.
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That opened up the debate about the state's share of paying for the welfare of the elderly and the role of theprivatecitizen.
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The second inquiry is on the point as to how far the interests of theprivatecitizen, the individual, are going to be affected.
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It is very difficult for theprivatecitizento buck the findings of the valuation department.
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What steps should theprivatecitizentake to assist the authorities in obtaining evidence?
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What theprivatecitizendoes as an individual is his own affair.
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The instrument of the income tax return is one of the most intimate investigations into theprivatecitizen.
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In present times the interests of theprivatecitizenare affected to a great extent by the actions of the civil servants.
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It is impractical and wrong to leave that to theprivatecitizen.
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I acknowledge that there have been improvements, but they do not deal sufficiently with the defence of theprivatecitizenand privacy.
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I would add, too, that this performance is equally degrading to theprivatecitizen.
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If we proceed along this delicate path of legislation for theprivatecitizenin his or her home, we should know what the citizen wants.
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Finally, the owner of the factory was aprivatecitizen, as has been mentioned previously.
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All those derive ultimately from people confusing what is proper in aprivatecitizenwith what is proper in a servant of the public.
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Aprivatecitizenbringing a casualty to that hospital by car would not necessarily know that.
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In some ways we must be harder on large corporations than on theprivatecitizen.
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Theprivatecitizenstill wants to maintain as far as possible—in fact it is almost instinctive in every one of us—his standard of living.
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In present times the interests of theprivatecitizenare effected to a great extent by the actions of civil servants.
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