noncitizen

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
25
Letters
10

Definition of noncitizen

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Someone who is not a citizen.
    “It can be very difficult to hire a noncitizen.”
    “Prison Is a Place Called Hell Trenton State Prison is a nasty, stinking, medieval cubbyhole that was built in 1849 for noncitizens and mules, eight years before the Supreme Kangaroo Court under Chief Racist Taney declared the black man in American should not be considered a citizen of these United States.*”
    “But there is one study that has been interpreted to suggest it is at least possible. It found that between 32,000 and 2.8 million noncitizen voters might have fraudulently cast ballots in the 2008 presidential election. The study, based on a survey of 38,000 people after that election, has been under fire since it was published in 2014.”
    “Republicans are pushing legislation to crack down on voting by noncitizens, which happens rarely and is already illegal in federal elections, in a move that reinforces former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to delegitimize the 2024 results if he loses.”

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Etymology

From non- + citizen.

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