non-citizenn.adj.

1850 Proc. U.S. Senate on Fugitive Slave Bill 27 Free white men who have paid public taxes and arrived at full age, but have not a freehold of fifty acres..would be in an intermediate state, a sort of hybrids [sic] between citizens and non-citizens.

a1871 G. Grote Fragm. Ethical Subj. (1876) vi. 230 Aristotle's ideas are miserably defective as regards obligation towards non-citizens.

1921 Amer. Legion Weekly 12 Aug. 17 Recruits were thus assured a course in English as a result of their enlistment in addition to the advantage for non-citizens of full citizenship at the end of their three-year enlistment.

1978 K. J. Dover Greek Homosexuality xii. 29 Foreigners..were free to prostitute themselves as much as they pleased, without incurring any penalty..greater than that which their status as non-citizens already imposed on them.

1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) xiv. 472 Entry to the United States could be barred to any noncitizen known to be HIV-positive.

1887 N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 301 If it is right that in one State the non-citizen resident should vote, it is equally right in every State.

1914 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 19 767 So long..as we have taxed Indians and non-taxed Indians, citizen Indians and non-citizen Indians.., just so long we shall continue to have a condition of confusion in Indian affairs.

1925 Philos. Rev. 34 14 By reduction of business men and commercial activities to a strict minimum, and by restriction of these to a temporary and non-citizen class,..an attempt is made to escape the evils of materialism.

1973 Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 1/1 Kenya is to order 418 non~citizen Asian traders to shut their businesses and quit the country by June 1 under its Kenyanisation policy.