• Arabic:
• Finnish: asukas
• Kurdish: , ,
• Lithuanian: gyventojas

• Finnish: erikoistuva lääkäri

Derived terms

• residence
• residency
• permanent resident

Adjective

1. the person on hand who is the strongest in a particular skill or profession

   • He is our resident UNIX expert.

2. a student in the medical profession who watches a licensed doctor in order to learn a skill

   • For privacy reasons, she requested the resident nurse to leave.

A resident is a person who maintains a residency in a given place.

Resident may also refer to:

• Resident (title), a state official required to take up permanent residency abroad
• Resident spy, a spy who operates in a foreign country
• Resident bird, a bird that does not migrate
• Resident (medicine), a stage of postgraduate medical training in North America
• The Residents, an avant garde music and visual arts group
• Resident (Magazine), an Austrian music magazine
• Resident (Second Life), a member of the Second Life gaming community
• Resident Commissioner, a commissioner in an overseas possession or protectorate of the British Crown or of the U.S.A.
• Resident Evil, a series of survival horror games

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