nonresident

[non-rez-i-duhnt]

adjective

1. not resident in a particular place.

2. not residing where official duties require a person to reside.

noun

1. a person who is nonresident.

nonresident

/ nɒnˈrɛzɪdənt /

noun

1. a person who is not residing in the place implied or specified

   the hotel restaurant is open to nonresidents

2. 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

adjective

1. not residing in the place specified

Other Word Forms

• nonresidence noun
• nonresidency noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of nonresident¹

First recorded in 1520–30; non- + resident

Example Sentences

The speech was rooted in “an American First foreign policy,” observed Paul Poast, an associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago and a nonresident fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

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Yoon-Wu said there were “many factors” that contributed to the system wanting a larger pool of nonresident admits.

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At the University of California, for example, there’s a nonresident fee of $34,200 per year for those entering the system.

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Bass had previously said that the California National Guard, who had been manning checkpoints blocking nonresidents from accessing the community, would be withdrawing.

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Michael Pettis, an American professor of finance at Peking University in Beijing and a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, agreed that Bessent was an excellent choice.

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Related Words

• alien 
• different 
• external 
• offshore 
• overseas 
• unfamiliar