(n.) A student of the civil law at a university or college.
(n.) One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of those, 39 were civilians, 34 armed opposition fighters and 35 members of the state security forces, said the UK-based group.
(2) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
(3) At least 10,000 civilians took refuge in UN compounds in the capital, said one UN official who asked not to be named.
(4) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
(5) Another 300-350 civilians had been killed and 600-650 injured from late January to mid-April.
(6) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.
(7) Campbell's assessment came the day after a United Nations report found that ground battles between Afghan forces and the Taliban insurgents had overtaken insurgent bombs as a leading cause of civilian deaths and injuries .
(8) The Bosnian leadership in Sarajevo warned the UN on 8 July that “genocide against the civilian population of Srebrenica may occur” but did not call for evacuation.
(9) As well as enjoying access to a number of RAF bases, the agency has been flying in and out of civilian airports across the country.
(10) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
(11) The United Nations said that 3,099 Afghan civilians were killed in the first six months of this year alone.
(12) Congolese civilians are being beaten, threatened and arrested for wearing the T-shirts of opposition candidates, raising the prospect of bloodshed during this month's elections, the UN has warned.
(13) More than 50,000 civilians have joined a growing exodus from east Aleppo, a human rights monitor has said, as the UN security council prepares to hold emergency talks on fighting in the Syrian city.
(14) An intelligence officer told Associated Press that they were aware of the movement, but that the military is acting with care as many civilians are still trapped in the town and Boko Haram is laying land mines around it.
(15) Britain is being urged to halt the supply of weapons to its ally Saudi Arabia in the light of evidence that civilians are being killed in Saudi-led attacks on rebel forces in Yemen .
(16) It claims that reports of civilians being killed by security forces are fabrications cooked up by activists and the international media, while the official news agency talks constantly about "armed criminal groups" trying to destabilise the country.
(17) The prevalence of a history of post-traumatic stress disorder was 1 percent in the total population, about 3.5 percent in civilians exposed to physical attack and in Vietnam veterans who were not wounded, and 20 percent in veterans wounded in Vietnam.
(18) Nato’s Jens Stoltenberg, the transatlantic alliance’s top civilian, attempted to signal such continuity after the Brexit vote.
(19) Buhari has described himself as a “converted democrat” who repeatedly contested and lost elections after civilian rule was restored 16 years ago.
(20) Drones are not only provocative and illegal in international law but have also led to the killing of many innocent civilians in other countries that has had a serious impact on how the US is perceived in the region.
Civvies
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The myriad suicide bombings, the cross-border terrorism, the weekly slaughter of poorly-paid policemen and frontier guards – these are not the fault of a rogue institution's misguided priorities, but instead the US-India-Israel axis first, and the "bloody civvies" second.
(2) Aly Renwick, author of Hidden Wounds: the Problems of Northern Ireland Veterans in Civvy Street and himself a veteran of that conflict, spent a number of years researching the history of PTSD-related criminal behaviour among British combat veterans.
(3) The remaining members of the Force India team left the circuit before darkness fell – and they did so wearing civvies instead of the normal team colours that identify them as part of the grand prix.
(4) Her Majesty came in civvies, sporting a smart white silk brocade coat and flower trimmed hat, finished off with an enormous Brazilian aquamarine.
(5) As they found, it achieved little apart from a swift(er) transfer to civvy street.
(6) He was Superintendent Leroy Logan a fortnight ago, probably the best known black officer in the Metropolitan police, but then his 30 years with Scotland Yard elapsed and now he is in civvies.
(7) My view was that I'd done my sentence so why couldn't I go straight back to civvy life?"
(8) Here was a sketchbook Hitler had given him in the 1920s: designs for the rebuilding of the city of Linz, which the Führer-to-be (then only a dog soldier in civvies, an obscure war veteran without any political power) projected as a new world capital and had drawn in a heavy Wilhelmine baroque style (none of those huge white classical colonnades yet).
(9) After every extracurricular challenge in other people's films, Sandler always snaps back into place in his ordinary Joe, blue-collar civvies.
(10) 7.26pm BST Terry attire John Terry has wandered down the tunnel in his civvies.
(11) Ben (@dickersonpk) @KidWeil Julio Dely Valdes looks even more capable than Klinsi of doffing his coach's civvies and knocking in a couple July 28, 2013 He does look in very good shape.