nonresident
Americanadjective
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not resident in a particular place.
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not residing where official duties require a person to reside.
noun
noun
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a person who is not residing in the place implied or specified
the hotel restaurant is open to nonresidents
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a British person employed abroad on a contract for a minimum of one year, who is exempt from UK income tax provided that he does not spend more than 90 days in the UK during that tax year
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The city closed the Peninsula to nonresident traffic, with more street closures starting at 62nd Place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Mark Jamison is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the director and Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
“The perception in the Trump administration is that Israel is a loose cannon,” said Elizabeth Tsurkov, a senior nonresident fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, a Washington think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
China's campaign of keeping tabs on dissidents around the world is motivated by the belief that criticism threatens the country's stability, said Claire Chu, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Dissenting from the conclusion, Justice Roberts declared that the plain effect of the Virginia law is to compel a nonresident to pay a Virginia resident for services which the latter does not in fact render.
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin
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