Resident vs. Owner — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Resident and Owner
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Resident
A diplomatic official residing in a foreign seat of government.
Owner
A person who owns something
Restaurant owners
The proud owner of a huge Dalmatian
Resident
A colonial official acting as adviser to the ruler of a protected state, often having quasi-gubernatorial powers.
Owner
Of or belonging to oneself or itself
She makes her own clothes.
Resident
A member of an intelligence-gathering or nonuniformed law enforcement agency who resides and oversees operations in a certain locale
The FBI resident in St. Louis.
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Owner
That which belongs to one
I wanted a room of my own.
Resident
One who lives in a dormitory.
Owner
To have or possess as property
Owns a chain of restaurants.
Resident
A physician receiving specialized clinical training in a hospital, usually after completing an internship.
Owner
To have control over
For a time, enemy planes owned the skies.
Resident
A nonmigratory bird or other animal.
Owner
To admit as being in accordance with fact, truth, or a claim; acknowledge
"I own that I have been sly, thievish, mean, a prevaricator, greedy, derelict, / and I own that I remain so yet" (Walt Whitman).
Resident
Dwelling in a particular place; residing
Resident aliens.
Owner
To make a full confession or acknowledgment
When confronted with the evidence the thief owned up to the crime.
Resident
Living somewhere in connection with duty or work.
Owner
One who owns something.
The police recovered the stolen car and returned it to its owner.
Resident
Filling a particular role in a group or organization
The museum's official resident poet.
The office's resident gossipmonger.
Owner
The captain of a ship.
Resident
Inherently present
Resident anxieties.
Owner
One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.
Resident
Nonmigratory
Resident fauna.
Owner
(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business;
He is the owner of a chain of restaurants
Resident
A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
Owner
A person who owns something;
They are searching for the owner of the car
Who is the owner of that friendly smile?
Resident
A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
Resident
A physician receiving specialized medical training.
She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.
Resident
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
Resident
(legal) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
Resident
(espionage) rezident
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
Resident in the city or in the country
Resident
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
He is our resident computer expert.
Resident
(obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
Resident
Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; - opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.
Resident
Fixed; stable; certain.
One there still resident as day and night.
Resident
One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
Resident
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; - a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.
Resident
Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
Resident
A physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital;
The resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital
Resident
Living in a particular place;
Resident aliens
Resident
Used of animals that do not migrate
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