pensioner
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈpɛnʃənər/
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jubilado
- After years of hard work, he finally became a pensioner and could enjoy his retirement.
- workers and pensioners
- war pensioners
- age pensioners
Why, for example, are pensioners much happier than the young unemployed?
- Why, for example, are pensioners much happier than the young unemployed?
- Thinking locally, Madam Chairman Mindox is full of desperate pleas from my constituents, from carers, pensioners, local businesses.
- That's a global crisis as these pensions cannot meet their promises paid, you know, to pensioners.
- You've got retired train drivers, you've got pensioners who just went down to the March at Westminster and happened to yell in the face of police officers.
- We have pensioners with their pensions biting it up.
- Everyone around me is old age pensioners on their deathbeds.
Examples
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Why, for example, are pensioners much happier than the young unemployed?
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Indeed, inflation has eaten away at the real value of pensioners' benefits over the years.
Academic text (2000) -
But now... you are... a pensioner.
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And you certainly are no pensioner living off national insurance or your police pension.
Fiction book (2000) -
Child poverty is up, pensioner poverty is up.
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So how does that affect the pensioner in Rhode Island?
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You know, we suddenly heard that pensioners like me are not going to have their Winter Fuel Alliance anymore.
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Members can be recruited from a variety of social groups, including farmers, pensioners, and the unemployed.
Academic text (1998) -
From time to time, the government likes to boast that it has taken a million pensioners out of poverty.
Academic text (2008) -
About nine million pensioners and annuitants subsist on a low income, but wield great electoral power.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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2.7
A person who has stopped working because of age or choice
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1.0
A person who has stopped working because of age or health
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8.6
A person who receives regular payments from a pension or insurance plan
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4.2
A person who gets regular money from the government after they stop working because of age
A person who receives regular retirement payments from a company or government
Compounds
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4.2
A person who gets regular money from the government after they stop working because of age
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pensioner comes from the word pension, which originally meant a regular 'payment'. So a pensioner is someone who receives that regular 'payment' after they stop working.