noncontributory

/ -trɪ, ˌnɒnkənˈtrɪbjʊtərɪ /

adjective

1. 1. denoting an insurance or pension scheme for employees, the premiums of which are paid entirely by the employer

   2. (of a state benefit) not dependent on national insurance contributions

2. not providing contribution; noncontributing

Example Sentences

Less-skilled immigrants to countries with noncontributory welfare states can start drawing benefits fairly quickly, regardless of their contribution.

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For all its employees, Prudential has free medical care, a noncontributory pension plan, and extra vacation days for good attendance; but Vice President Charles Fleetwood decided he would have to do "something special" to staff his new southwestern headquarters.

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Already a very active contributor to the "noncontributory" coal miners' pension fund, and with prospects of shortly assuming similar paternalism in behalf of the steel worker I don't see how I can conscientiously fail to do as well by the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker .

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Although union leaders have fought bitterly to impose such noncontributory pensions on management, do the rank & file of unionists really want them?

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The biggest�and among the oldest�of the noncontributory plans are those of the Bell system�A.T.

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