Citizen of a country (8)

I believe the answer is:

national

(Other definitions for national that I've seen before include "State-controlled" , "Applying to whole country" , "trust of land owners" , "Citizen of a particular country" , "See 17" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.

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