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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
civilian/səˈvɪliən/

▶noun a person not in the armed services or the police force. ▶adjective denoting or relating to civilians.

– derivatives
civilianization (or civilianisation) noun,
civilianize (or civilianise) verb.

– origin ME (denoting a practitioner of civil law): from OFr. civilien, in the phr. droit civilien ‘civil law’.

'civilian' also found in these Oxford entries:

billet - camp follower - civvy - collateral damage - dual-use - medical officer - mufti - non-combatant - pagan - trainband

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