citizenship

noun

cit·i·zen·ship ˈsi-tə-zən-ˌship

also -sən-

: the status of being a citizen

He was granted U.S. citizenship.

: membership in a community (such as a college)

: the quality of an individual's response to membership in a community

The students are learning the value of good citizenship.

Examples of citizenship in a Sentence

She applied for Polish citizenship. He was granted U.S. citizenship. The students are learning the value of good citizenship.

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Judges have issued more than a dozen orders at least temporarily blocking aspects of Trump’s agenda, ranging from an executive order to end U.S. citizenship extended automatically to people born in this country to the administration’s authorization of Musk’s team’s access to sensitive federal data. —

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025 Irving holds dual American and Australian citizenship, having been born in Melbourne in 1992 while his father, Drederick, was playing for the Bulleen Bullets in the South East Australian Basketball League. —

Jamie Barton, CNN, 18 Feb. 2025 The court allowed Trump to fire the head of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau but not to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for immigrants who came to the U.S. as children or to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. —

Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025 Other rulings on birthright citizenship have come in Concord, N.H., Greenbelt, Md., and Seattle. —

Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for citizenship