pensioner
a person who receives or lives on a pension.
a person who works only for pay without regard to the value of the work; a hireling.
a student at Cambridge University who pays the cost to dine in the commons and other expenses, and is not supported by any foundation.
Obsolete. a gentleman-at-arms.
Origin of pensioner
1Other words from pensioner
- pen·sion·er·ship, noun
- non·pen·sion·er, noun
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How to use pensioner in a sentence
The pensioners complained that authorities were closing their Khamovniki district clinic.
Pensioners especially are likely to react with anger to the ending of public services.
Of those who were caught in the scuffle, many were teenagers, students, civic activists, and pensioners.
Beijing/Hong Kong: A Tale of Two Cities as Demonstrations Continue | Ben Leung | October 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 2011, it took in upwards of $712 million in deposits in France and Germany, including from those countries' pensioners.
A couple of pensioners Vitaliy Ilyin and his wife Svetlana could not sleep, when they heard about the crackdown on Maidan.
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It was discovered that 27 members of the English parliament had been pensioners on the government.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThere are a lot of old servants, old pensioners and old horses, all eating their heads off here, and doing no work.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James WillsYour Irish pensioners would starve, if they had no other fund to live on than the taxes granted by English authority.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterIf they had no other fund to live on than the taxes granted by English authority, your Irish pensioners would starve.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterNewton smiled his thanks to the considerate old pensioners, as they stumped out of the door, and left him alone with his father.
Newton Forster | Captain Frederick Marryat
British Dictionary definitions for pensioner
/ (ˈpɛnʃənə) /
a person who is receiving a pension, esp an old-age pension from the state
a person dependent on the pay or bounty of another
obsolete, British another name for gentleman-at-arms
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