noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
citizen's arrest
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Brown made a citizen’s arrest when a youth attempted to rob an elderly woman.
Citizens' Band
decent citizens/people/folk etc
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The majority of residents here are decent citizens.
law-abiding citizen
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a law-abiding citizen
responsible adult/citizen
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It’s time you started acting like a responsible adult.
second-class citizens
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Why should old people be treated like second-class citizens ?
senior citizen
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
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It would have an elite of politically conscious and publicly conscientious active citizens and a majority of couldn't-care-less passive citizens.
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The active influential citizen described ill normative political theory is not excused from the obligations of the subject.
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One is a shift by the government from an emphasis on the adult active citizen to the young novice citizen.
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There are now 92,000 such schemes, entirely due to the endeavours of individual active citizens and communities.
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Douglas Hurd's active citizen and John Patten's lager louts are both given an airing.
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Wringe further argues that the picture of the active citizen heavily engaged in voluntary service is something of a contradiction.
average
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The inhibitions of the average citizen were hot to trot.
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The average citizen can enhance his or her own knowledge about agencies like ours.
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Why is the average citizen unaware of this problem?
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The surprising part was the level of sophistication with which the average citizen was mulling his market strategies.
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In the face of the need for such massive expenditures, the average citizen is overwhelmed.
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But our instinctive need to fill the vacuum inspires us to the ultimate irony: We turn 12 average citizens into killers.
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Most were invisible to the average citizen .
fellow
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New statistics hurled at us: 70 percent of our fellow citizens live below the poverty line.
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A group called New York Pride is trying to persuade fellow citizens to show more civility.
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Thus social order was apparently being maintained by one's fellow citizens within one's own community.
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Is he further aware that since 1979, 2 million of our fellow citizens have lost their jobs in the manufacturing sector?
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Mr. Kinnock For 2.6 million of our fellow citizens the unemployment figures are not disappointing - they are absolutely devastating.
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It seemed unstoppable, spreading like green fly and just as blind to the disapproval of fellow citizens .
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It employed an army of staff and volunteers who spied on their fellow citizens .
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The Prime Minister I believe that the right hon. Gentleman speaks for all our millions of fellow citizens .
good
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But once the sentence has been paid, the criminal is entitled to society's help to become a good citizen .
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Clearly, the company has been a good corporate citizen .
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Fortunately, the good citizens of Geneva had enough else to think about at this juncture.
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The plan was to love her for ever and then, somehow, become a good citizen .
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There was a slight hiccup in the 1950s when a good citizen of Edinburgh objected to our bearing the arms.
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But he had always been a good citizen .
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How did the good citizens of San Diego react?
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Not to hurt or be hurt, not to be a good citizen or a hero or a moral man.
individual
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The competitive market is advocated because it is held to promote efficiency in resource allocation and the liberty of the individual citizen .
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These are basic issues that have to be driven home to every individual citizen .
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There are now 92,000 such schemes, entirely due to the endeavours of individual active citizens and communities.
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Every activity of the individual citizen is subject to scrutiny by the state, in the name of the public interest.
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The individual citizen was beginning to learn he had recourse against the all powerful government.
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All public services are paid for by individual citizens , either directly or through their taxes.
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We will examine whether certain regulations affecting individual citizens within their own homes could be made advisory, rather than mandatory.
ordinary
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The unpaid volunteers will not wear uniforms and will not have any special powers over and above those of ordinary citizens .
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New methods and new systems must be devised to enable ordinary citizens to reach responsible and informed judgments.
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The fact of production and the images presented have strong economic implications for the film and television industry and the ordinary citizen .
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Interactive telecommunications increasingly give ordinary citizens immediate access to the major political decisions that affect their lives and property.
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When the Senate adopts a measure by 100 votes to none, the ordinary citizen should count the spoons.
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Television gives ordinary citizens an unmediated, direct personal view of world events. 2.
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There seems to be no animosity towards foreigners on the part of the ordinary citizen .
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Together leaders and ordinary citizens produced widely differing evaluations.
private
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Crime prevention has becomes the responsibility of the private citizen .
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He had made up his mind to appoint a nonpolitical committee of outside experts and prominent private citizens .
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Two days later Diana took a well-earned break, her last as a private citizen .
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Liem had previously visited Pyongyang in 1977 as a private citizen .
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That's something that ought to be taken care of by private citizens .
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He visited it as a private citizen .
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Unfortunately, the social class of the private citizens could not be determined.
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Shootings and other racially motivated violence perpetrated by private citizens continued to the end of the Carter years.
responsible
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He says I don't think he's a responsible enough citizen .
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As responsible citizens , you have the duty to, and can, avert these insurance crises.
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And support us as we live as responsible citizens of this city and nation.
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Aim: emphasis upon the responsible citizen , and the idea of service.
senior
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They also agreed to exchange visits from some 100 senior citizens around Aug. 15, in an effort to reunite dispersed families.
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Popular with senior citizens and the motor-coach touring set, the Heritage Plantation is billed as an Americana theme park and arboretum.
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There are reductions for children, senior citizens and pre-booked parties.
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I think the party is inexcusably pandering to the senior citizens .
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The course costs £15, or £ for senior citizens , students and the unemployed.
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Starting soon, some one from the Massachusetts center will check up several times a week on senior citizens with congestive heart failure.
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This choice of language is for example particularly important in communicating to youth and senior citizen markets.
soviet
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In the early years few groups of Soviet citizens visited Britain.
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For many pro-reform Soviet citizens , Nevzorov personified the hardline editorial shift in television broadcasting.
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New customs rates On July 1 new customs duties for Soviet citizens bringing goods into the country came into force.
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This latter has the inestimable advantage for Soviet citizens of accepting roubles.
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Given a real cause to fight for, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens would volunteer to help overthrow Stalin.
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To us he will always be a Soviet citizen .
■ NOUN
charter
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Again, the citizens charter builds on past achievements.
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Ministers' views were set out in the citizens charter as they are set out in the Bill.
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That could be done by means of a supplement to the citizens charter and could be delivered to every household in the country.
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The citizens charter is nothing more than a glossy confection.
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The citizens charter is simply the most comprehensive programme ever launched by any Government anywhere to improve public services.
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Access is another important principle of the citizens charter .
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The citizens charter is all about achieving what I have described.
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Performance pay will play a crucial part in delivering the citizens charter programme.
class
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They are not in any way second class citizens .
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Beaches Miserable at being a second class citizen ?
participation
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The audit report was also critical of the amount of funds allocated to staff support of citizen participation activities.
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Another source of increasing tension in the federal aid system concerned citizen participation in decisionmaking.
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Crawford was eager to allow the bureaucrats to steamroller over any meaningful citizen participation in the process.
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The expansion of citizen participation is greatly threatened today by government secrecy, industrial monopolies, and a closed media.
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The hands-off policy was extended to the structure of citizen participation and the social targeting provisions.
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The Senate would even have required citizen participation in the execution of the program.
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The city chose existing citizen advisory boards and commissions as its vehicle for citizen participation .
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As part of the citizen participation requirements, councils had been set up in four model cities and twelve antipoverty target neighborhoods.
■ VERB
allow
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Problems of political obligation can only be overcome by participatory political associations which would allow citizens to create their own political obligations.
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Six more states, including Texas, implemented laws on Jan. 1 that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons.
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In most states, recently passed laws now allow citizens to carry concealed handguns.
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He noted the center is organizing a public forum to allow citizens to express their views.
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The United States is one of the few democracies that does not allow its citizens to elect their national chief executive directly.
become
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Under Augustus legislation was passed to allow freed slaves to marry and their children to become Roman citizens .
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I think this is one of the major rights and responsibilities when you become a citizen .
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But once the sentence has been paid, the criminal is entitled to society's help to become a good citizen .
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Because Dred Scott was property, he could never become a citizen of any state.
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We could become a country of citizens , not subjects, striving for excellence rather than settling for second best.
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The plan was to love her for ever and then, somehow, become a good citizen .
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But, more tellingly, many legal residents are hastily becoming citizens .
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The result, according to the story, was that she could never become a citizen .
protect
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That privilege aims to protect all citizens against being compelled to condemn themselves.
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That is why the Supreme Court has been so determined to protect the rights of citizens to protect themselves against the government.
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The motion accused the government of failing to protect the lives of citizens .
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The national government seemingly could find no constitutional means to intercede to protect its black citizens .
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There is a basic assumption in international law - and in common sense - that a state will protect its citizens .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Joe College/Citizen etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Claire is now a citizen of the US.
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Fahd became a British citizen after living there for several years.
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Laurent is a Swiss citizen .
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Noriko's a Japanese citizen , but her parents are originally from South Korea.
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Parents have the responsibility of teaching our children to be good citizens.
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The citizens of Ketchikan were excited to see the huge ship sail into their harbor.
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The court's ruling should be of interest to every citizen of Texas.
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The police asked if we were both British citizens.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Eventually he decided to move from the town where he had been known as a prosperous citizen .
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It was at this time that the idea of a citizen militia to defend the constitution against its enemies gathered support.
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New educational policies take their justification from the experiences of racism suffered by black citizens.
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People who write poison warnings or mechanical instructions are addressing citizens in every state at once.
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The Richmond Plan denies certain citizens the opportunity to compete for a fixed percentage of public contracts based solely upon their race.
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This arises due to an inadequate tax base and/or tax evasion by citizens with relatively high incomes.
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Why is the average citizen unaware of this problem?