residents

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residents

physicians who are in full-time attendance in a hospital and who often live on the premises; those who reside in a place: residents of a condominium complex
Not to be confused with:
residence – habitation, domicile; stay, sojourn; the place in which a person resides: My residence is within the city limits.
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THE city of Gakwak being about to lose its character of capital of the province of Ukwuk, the Wampog issued a proclamation convening all the male residents in council in the Temple of Ul to devise means of defence.
Mitenka himself, returning tipsy from the town, used to hide there, and many of the residents at Otradnoe, hiding from Mitenka, knew of its protective qualities.)
He was going both to rest for a fortnight, and in the very heart of the people, in the farthest wilds of the country, to enjoy the sight of that uplifting of the spirit of the people, of which, like all residents in the capital and big towns, he was fully persuaded.
Woodford, Resident Commissioner of the British Solomons.
Everything there is regulated by resident partners; that is to say, partners who reside in the tramontane country, but who move about from place to place, either with Indian tribes, whose traffic they wish to monopolize, or with main bodies of their own men, whom they employ in trading and trapping.
He came himself to live with me in the character of a resident patient.
All the members of the association resident in Baltimore attended the invitation of their president.
I think there was hardly an inhabitant of Hayslope specially mentioned in this history and still resident in the parish on this November morning who was not either in church to see Adam and Dinah married, or near the church door to greet them as they came forth.
The seller (a French horse-dealer resident in Brussels) had returned to Belgium immediately on completing the negotiations.
I think that one who mixes much with Americans long resident abroad must arrive at this conclusion.
Abandoning that pursuit, he had next become a quack-doctor, first in a resident, then in a vagabond capacity--taking a medical degree of his own conferring, and holding to it as a good traveling title for the rest of his life.
Stowe, then of Lane Seminary, Ohio, with regard to emancipated slaves, now resident in Cincinnati; given to show the capability of the race, even without any very particular assistance or encouragement.
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