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pensioner
/ˈpɛnʃənɚ/
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What does pensioner mean?
noun
- Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.
- Someone who is at the age at which one typically receives a pension; an elderly person.
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noun
- (obsolete) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges.
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“A pensioner of Farfrae’s wife—not I! Don’t stay with me longer—I shall say something worse. Go home!”
The memoir on "Property," published last year by the pensioner of the Academy of Besancon, is simply a study of this nature.
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He had been carried by the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment through the entire war, and now dwelt an honored pensioner in the state building itself.
The very next morning she found a full milk-can without a lid, successfully robbed a barrow pensioner, and found a big fish-head, all within two hours.
In childhood he had been a servant in the House of Orleans and afterward became their pensioner.