Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The status of a citizen with its attendant duties, rights, and privileges.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being vested with the rights and privileges of a citizen. See
citizen .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The status of being a
citizen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the status of a citizen with rights and duties
- noun conduct as a citizen
Etymologies
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Examples
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This essay asks how the political identity and domain of civic practice we refer to by the term citizenship is transformed, eroded, or, perhaps, disappeared in the contexts of neoliberal governance.
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CROWLEY: And it is about those who think pathway to citizenship is code for amnesty.
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And maybe this is an error of bias on my behalf, but when I hear the term citizenship, "nation-state" citizenship is the last thing on my mind.
Digital Citizenship – Criticisms & Conversations « open thinking 2007
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The fact that other countries make it difficult to gain citizenship is proof that other countries have higher standards.
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Even the term citizenship, with all the responsibilities associated with it, have begun to blossom and to play a seminal role in establishing civil rights and democratic practices, albeit at an early and yet unsophisticated stage.
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Even the term citizenship, with all the responsibilities associated with it, have begun to blossom and to play a seminal role in establishing civil rights and democratic practices, albeit at an early and yet unsophisticated stage.
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Even the term citizenship, with all the responsibilities associated with it, have begun to blossom and to play a seminal role in establishing civil rights and democratic practices, albeit at an early and yet unsophisticated stage.
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Even the term citizenship, with all the responsibilities associated with it, have begun to blossom and to play a seminal role in establishing civil rights and democratic practices, albeit at an early and yet unsophisticated stage.
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And this possibility of exercising our citizenship is actually one of the reasons for the mass media's support of the Digital AI-5.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Amplified conversations to fight the Digital Crimes Bill 2009
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Then the path to citizenship is too easy, when hundreds of thousands have waited in line forever to get an entry visa?
A Week of Malaise and Many Gaffes - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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