private citizen

1. 1.

   a citizen who does not hold any official or public position

   Broadercitizen

Questions about private citizen

What does private citizen mean?

private citizen means "a citizen who does not hold any official or public position".

Is private citizen a common word?

private citizen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.