fellow citizen

collocation in English

meaningsoffellowandcitizen

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fellow
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈfel.əʊ/us
/ˈfel.oʊ/
used to refer to someone who has the same job or interests as you, or is in the same situation ...
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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 offellowandcitizenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffellow citizen

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How does a liberal nation strip afellowcitizenof rights?
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Notice that an increase in does not reduce the chance of meeting one'sfellowcitizenand instead results in a higher frequency of trading opportunity.
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This legitimating language de-humanized the "other" in the conflict and quickly turned neighbor, co-worker, relative, or simplyfellowcitizeninto an alien whose very existence threatened one's own existence.
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I welcome the comments made by previous speakers that they would like to treat me as afellowcitizen.
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None of us would want to see pain and suffering caused to afellowcitizenmerely to satisfy the curiosity of other people.
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Therefore, we should not lightly allow people to have the right of bringing afellowcitizeninto court and facing him with that stigma.
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It is the implication that no one can sympathise with another human being andfellowcitizenunless they have shared his experiences in every respect.
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Would they give to any man the right to shut up afellowcitizenfor a day without trial and for nothing?
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I personally shall continue to inform any colleague orfellowcitizenwho asks about the movement of radioactive trains.
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He is, after all, still afellowcitizen.
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This is not merely an objection about afellowcitizen.
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We all have a duty to go to the aid of afellowcitizenin such circumstances.
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I submit that when we take away the liberty of afellowcitizenwe assume a grave responsibility.
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Anything other than completely open ports, allowing the citizen of another country to join afellowcitizen, is bound to create some form of sadness.
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The individual orfellowcitizen—he may be an immigrant or a foreigner—has been given what is deemed to be something of a privilege to appear before this tribunal.
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The law of special and general damages has been part of our law for many years, and we have been able, by right, to recover damages from afellowcitizen.
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