"Channel Island" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{head|en|proper noun|head=Channel Island}} Channel Island
  1. attributive form of Channel Islands Tags: attributive, form-of Form of: Channel Islands Derived forms: Channel Island fox
    Sense id: en-Channel_Island-en-name-U3OUCw6W Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1961 February 4, “The Jersey Loophole”, in The Economist, volume CXCVIII, number 6128, London, page 449, column 3",
          "text": "Tax avoidance by United Kingdom residents has been a familiar story in the Channel Islands since the end of the 1914-18 war, although it has been kept under control by the observance of a gentlemen’s agreement between the Channel Island authorities and the Treasury. Lately, however, a discrepancy between United Kingdom and Channel Island law on the definition of immovable property has led to a new dodge which is causing increasing concern to the authorities in Jersey.",
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          "ref": "1999, John Alder, Constitutional and Administrative Law (Macmillan Law Masters), 3rd edition, Basingstoke, Hants.: Macmillan Press Ltd, page 127",
          "text": "The Channel Islands are not members of the European Union but there are special treaty arrangements. Channel Island citizens are British citizens (British Nationality 1981ss. 1, 11, 50(1)).",
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          "ref": "2008, Glynis Cooper, Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Jersey, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Wharncliffe Books, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, page 12",
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