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
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonresidence noun
- nonresidency noun
Etymology
Origin of nonresident
Example Sentences
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“The aid wouldn’t surprise me, but there are also coverage gaps in Russian satellite imagery,” said Nicole Grajewski, nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
Gen. John G. Ferrari is a senior nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026
“It is a relationship that is kind of below the radar but it is a relationship that exists,” said Elizabeth Tsurkov, a nonresident fellow at the Washington-based New Lines Institute, who studies Kurdish groups.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
“Don’t let the threat of a shutdown or even the reality of a shutdown affect your tax filing,” said Howard Gleckman, a nonresident fellow at the Tax Policy Center.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026
From these testimonies, it is evident that Jesse Peter was a nonresident pastor of the Silver Bluff Church from 1788 to 1792, if not for a longer period.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various
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