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foreigner
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person not having citizenship in a country
A foreigner is a person who is not a citizen of a particular country. This distinction matters because citizenship determines legal rights, responsibilities, and access to services like voting, employment, and social benefits.
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Encyclopedic overview
In law, an alien is a foreign-born resident who has not been naturalized and is still a citizen or subject of a foreign country, although definitions and terminology differ across legal systems.
Lexicology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “foreigner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.