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Pensioners
Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.
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noun
- 1
Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.
- 2
(by extension) Someone who is at the age at which one typically receives a pension; an elderly person.
- 3
(Cambridge University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Oxford called a commoner.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| pensionarynoun | one who receives a pension; a pensioner |
| annuitantnoun | The recipient of an annuity. |
| annuitantsnoun | The recipient of an annuity. |
| annuitynoun | (insurance, pensions) A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries. |
| beneficiariesnoun | One who benefits or receives an advantage. |
| pensionsnoun | (finance) An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. |
| reformed | Amended in character and life. |
| retiredverb | Having left employment, especially on reaching pensionable age. (of people) |
| retireesnoun | Someone who has retired from active working. |
| retirementnoun | The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. |
| retirementsnoun | The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. |
| superannuatesnoun | (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A retirement benefit fund, an accumulation of regular deductions from one′s wage or salary while employed and similar regular contributions from the employer, usually administered by an independent entity; a pension. |
| elderly people | — |
| elderly | old; having lived for relatively many years. |
| pensioningnoun | (finance) An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. |
| geriatricsnoun | (medicine) The branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. The term itself can be distinguished from gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself. |
| senior citizennoun | An elderly person, variously considered to be a person over fifty, fifty-five, sixty, or sixty-five years of age. |
| pensionnoun | (finance) An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. |
| centenariansnoun | One who or that which is at least 100 years old. |
| seniorsnoun | (now chiefly US) An old person. |
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