A legal and administrative term used primarily in British Overseas Territories — most notably the Turks and Caicos Islands and Bermuda — referring to the status of a 'belonger': someone with a recognized native or established right to live and work in that territory.
A legal and administrative term used primarily in British Overseas Territories — most notably the Turks and Caicos Islands and Bermuda — referring to the status of a 'belonger': someone with a recognized native or established right to live and work in that territory. Functions similarly to citizenship but is specific to these jurisdictions. Not casual slang, but a genuine distinctive regional legal usage.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK) One who has close ties to a specific overseas territory, normally by ancestry, and is therefore granted certain rights.
One who belongs; a member.
Belonging or pertaining to an individual person, group of people, or entity that is not the state.
(British, immigration) The right to reside in the United Kingdom, free from the constraints of immigration policy.
Her belongership application had been pending for over a year before the committee finally reviewed it.
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(UK) The status of belonger.
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