resident (residents plural )
1 n-count The residents of a house or area are the people who live there.
The Archbishop called upon the government to build more low cost homes for local residents...
2 adj Someone who is resident in a country or a town lives there.
He moved to Belgium in 1990 to live with his son, who had been resident in Brussels since 1967.
3 adj A resident doctor or teacher lives in the place where he or she works.
(BRIT)
The morning after your arrival, you meet with the resident physician for a private consultation.
4 n-count A resident or a resident doctor is a doctor who is receiving a period of specialized training in a hospital after leaving university.
(AM)
non-resident (non-residents plural )
in AM, also use nonresident A non-resident person is someone who is visiting a particular place but who does not live or stay there permanently. adj
(Antonym: resident)
The paper said that 100,000 non-resident workers would have to be sent back to their home villages.
A non-resident is someone who is non-resident., n-count (Antonym: resident)