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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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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