civilian
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yən noun
1.
a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, police, or fire fighting organization.
2.
Informal. anyone regarded by members of a profession, interest group, society, etc., as not belonging; nonprofessional; outsider: We need a producer to run the movie studio, not some civilian from the business world.
3.
a person versed in or studying Roman or civil law.
adjective
4.
of, pertaining to, formed by, or administered by civilians.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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| —n | |
| a. a person whose primary occupation is civil or nonmilitary | |
| b. (as modifier): civilian life | |
| [C14 (originally: a practitioner of civil law): from civile (from the Latin phrase jūs cīvīle civil law) + | |
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Word Origin & History
civilian
1388, from O.Fr. civilien "of the civil law," created from L. civilis (see civil). Original meaning in Eng. was "judge or authority on civil law," sense of "non-military person" is first attested 1829.
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Example sentences
Their civilian power programs were excellent cover for weapons development.
His ode to systems engineering includes a detailed look at three large defence projects and one civilian one.
Here medical teams cut, crack, and inject where their civilian counterparts might pause and worry about lawsuits.
Government investments specifically for civilian use are pretty sorry as far as returns.
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