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
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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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Mr. Poznansky is a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 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
Blair Levin is a nonresident fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former chief of staff at the Federal Communications Commission.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
About the author: Ben Cahill is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a regular contributor to Barron’s.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
They had no title to it, but as the owners were nonresident minors they were not disturbed.
From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by Linn, William Alexander
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