English

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Etymology

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Calque of German Marktbürger.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑːrkɪt ˈsɪtɪzn/

Noun

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market citizen (plural market citizens)

  1. The privileged status of anyone exploiting the specific individual rights of the European single market, having effectively a kind of depoliticized citizenship as a form of purely economic communitarization.
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