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citizenry

/sit-uh-zuhn-ree, -suhn-/US // ˈsɪt ə zən ri, -sən- //UK // (ˈsɪtɪzənrɪ) //

公民队伍,公民,民众,市民

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cit·i·zen·ries.

    • : citizens collectively.

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Examples

  • In blockbuster movies and best-selling books, such as “American Sniper” and “Lone Survivor,” they battle not only a ruthless enemy but also risk-averse generals, incompetent politicians and an indifferent citizenry.

  • States like Massachusetts also modeled democratic values when they began to write their own fundamental charters by consulting the citizenry at large.

  • For a long time, when we’ve imagined a woman reaching the highest ranks of power, the focus has been on how that will look — on how differently power will appear to the citizenry when its draped over a woman’s shoulders.

  • Senior Commerce officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, added that DJI was being sanctioned for enabling China’s widespread surveillance of its citizenry, which the officials described as a human rights violation.

  • It suggests that it serves us, the citizenry, really poorly.

  • That is the difference between the protections embedded in our Bill of Rights and the lived lives of our citizenry.

  • But it is too early to tell if the changes he helped unleash will prove sustainable, or if they will broadly serve our citizenry.

  • Chinese citizenry look outward too, but the relationship is often commercial, not cultural.

  • He likewise highlights this failing among a detached citizenry on the homefront.

  • No doubt they believed that an armed citizenry would make it difficult for a tyrannical ruler to run roughshod over the people.

  • The labor unions, the clergy, public officials and the general citizenry, were represented by the speakers.

  • Mosby's command, the "Partisan Rangers," also attracted several score of her patriotic citizenry.

  • No European commonwealths embraced in their citizenry one-half the ethnic diversity of the Carolinas or of Pennsylvania.

  • The post office at noon was a famous gathering place for the citizenry of Deep Harbor.

  • In society he found three classes: the philosophic and scientific, the soldier-citizenry, and the traders and artisans.