pensionless
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a word derived from
pension.
pensionnouna fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc..
Example Sentences
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Last week Labor Secretary Lynn Martin announced a plan -- dubbed Power, for Pension Opportunities for Workers' Expanded Retirement -- to help the pensionless.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thou goest into ecstacies over him, and his books have sold by tens of thousands; but me thou leavest pensionless, to earn my living as a cooper.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
Risaldar Mahommed Khan, two-medal man and pensionless gentleman-at-large, had gone to turn in his account of how he had remembered the salt which he had eaten.
From Told in the East by Talbot Mundy