- living in a particular place
- the town’s resident population (= not tourists or visitors)
- to be resident abroad/in the UK
- Tom's our resident expert (= our own expert) on foreign movies.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryResident is used with these nouns:- alien
- fellow
- physician
- …
Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin resident- ‘remaining’, from the verb residere ‘remain’, from re- ‘back’ + sedere ‘sit’.Want to learn more?
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