noun. a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, police, or fire fighting organization. Informal. anyone regarded by members of a profession, interest group, society, etc., as not belonging; nonprofessional; outsider: We need a producer to run the movie studio, not some civilian from the business world. More @Wikipedia
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