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citi·zen·ship (-s̸hip′)

noun

  1. the status or condition of a citizen
  2. the duties, rights, and privileges of this status
  3. a person's conduct as a citizen

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

citizenship Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • acquire: The child's birth must, however, be registered in South Africa for the child to acquire South African citizenship.

Adjective modifier

  • active: Also, in the council's vision statement, the term ' active citizenship ' is used.

Modifies a noun

  • curriculum: This could link into the new Citizenship curriculum in schools.

Noun used with modifier

  • participatory: Theater is successfully used here as a language of social inclusion and participatory citizenship.
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citizenship quotes

All forms of government fall when it comes up to the question of breadöbread for the family, something to eat.Bread to a manwith a family comes firstöbefore his union, before his citizenship, before his church affiliation. Bread!

-Lewis,John L(lewellyn)

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.Everyone who isborn holds dual citizenship, inthekingdomofthewell and inthekingdomofthesick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooneror latereach of us is obliged, at least fora spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

-Sontag, Susan

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