Citizenry

From the Associated Press Stylebook, 2004 edition, page 49:

citizen, resident, subject, national, native A citizen is the person who has acquired the full civil rights of a nation either by birth or naturalization. Cities and states do no not confer citizenship. To avoid confusion, use resident, not citizen, in referring to inhabitants of states and cities.

Citizen is also acceptable for those in the United Kingdom, or other monarchies where the term subject is often used.

National is applied to a person residing away from the nation of which he or she is a citizen, or to a person under the protection of a specified nation.

Native is the term denoting that an individual was born in a given location.

I know that conflicts with the surprisingly sloppy dictionary definition, but it still bugs me hearing the word used loosely, especially by people who know full well that there’s no such thing as Hesperia citizenship.

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