first-class citizen
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffirst classandcitizen
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first-class
adjective
uk/ˌfɜːst ˈklɑːs/us/ˌfɝːst ˈklæs/
excellent:
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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 offirst-classandcitizenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, this notion can be included as afirst-classcitizenin a programming language, allowing a set-based declarative style of programming.
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A scope is used to identify the structure of an event-based application as afirst-classcitizen, allowing event service semantics to be tailored and adapted to an application's needs.
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Children have to be catered for equally and convinced that one child is not afirst-classcitizenand another second-class.
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It is nonsense that the woman should be treated as if she were not a whole, dignified,first-classcitizen.
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If we expect them to rise to thefirst-classcitizenopportunities which are available for them here we must give them first-class treatment and there must be no back-pedalling.
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There is a need for perspective and a need to get away from the idea that a tenant is a second-class citizen whereas an owner-occupier is afirst-classcitizen.
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Metaclasses can be implemented by having classes befirst-classcitizen, in which case a metaclass is simply an object that constructs classes.
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Informally, reification is often referred to as making something afirst-classcitizenwithin the scope of a particular system.
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This is achieved by recognizing weight constraints as first-class citizens and using them as basic building blocks of rules instead of plain atoms.
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First, there is no way of producing values of function type, so the "functions as first-class citizens" mantra of functional programming is not addressed.
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However, reactions are not first-class citizens since they are kept separate from multisets of data.
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First, multisets are generalised to include rewrite rules, which become first-class citizens.
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Higher-order languages, which allow functions as 'first-class citizens', present interesting challenges for the compiler-writer.
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Such treatment is likely to have given veterans the sense of being incorporated as first-class citizens of the nation, in turn heightening their civic predisposition and thus their civic involvement.
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