first-class citizen
The term "first-class citizen" is used both in social contexts to describe individuals with full rights and in programming to describe entities with full capabilities.
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Definition
B2Society
(general)A person who enjoys all the rights, privileges, and opportunities available in a society.
Example
- In a fair society, everyone should be treated as a first-class citizen.
- She fought for her rights to be recognized as a first-class citizen.
C1Programming
(technical)An entity in a programming language that can be passed as an argument, returned from a function, and assigned to a variable.
Example
- In JavaScript, functions are first-class citizens.
- Treating objects as first-class citizens allows for more flexible code.
Similar
Terms that have similar or relatively close meanings to "first-class citizen":
second-class citizenfirst-class objectfirst classsecond classupper class