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private citizen

NOUN
  1. a citizen who does not hold any official or public position

How To Use private citizen In A Sentence

  • He emphasized that he was speaking as a private citizen, not in any official capacity.
  • In each of the past two years, Iceland has convoked a national assembly of 1,000 randomly selected Icelandic citizens -- in 2009 via grassroots efforts of private citizens -- to discuss the nation's values and future following the bank collapse of 2008. Iris Erlingsdottir: Power to the People
  • Crime prevention has becomes the responsibility of the private citizen.
  • A private citizen, secretly acting for the clergy, had pretended he was buying the land for non-religious purposes.
  • The king was visiting France as a private citizen.
  • the former President is now a private citizen
  • Octavius had refused, whereupon Gracchus had “called upon the gods to witness that he did not willingly wish to remove his colleague,” had balloted the eighteenth tribe, and achieved a majority, and Octavius had been stripped of his tribuneship “reduced to the rank of a private citizen, he departed unobserved”. Imperium
  • The country encourages concealed-carry of handguns in public by private citizens.
  • Luckily, the state's xenophobic legislation doesn't apply to me, a private citizen.
  • These aren't adult private citizens; they are minors who are being educated in government-run schools.
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