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pensioner

/pen-shuh-ner/US // ˈpɛn ʃə nər //UK // (ˈpɛnʃənə) //

退休人员,养老金领取者,领取养老金者,领取养老金的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who receives or lives on a pension.
    • : a hireling.
    • : a student at Cambridge University who pays for his or her commons and other expenses, and is not supported by any foundation.
    • : Obsolete. a gentleman-at-arms.

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Examples

  • “As Muslims, we want it to be a mosque, but we also have to think of the foreigners and their rights,” said Asim Gur, a pensioner.

  • Dimitris Christoulas, the pensioner who took his life, summed up the sentiments of many in his chilling suicide note.

  • Unlike the NFL pensioner, Anthony has nothing to fall back on.

  • To-morrow—a crippled veteran, and after that a pensioner drifting fast into a garrulous dotage.

  • Look at that vast host of our enemies—each one of them a future pensioner on a fool people.

  • I thank you for the copy of your letter to the pensioner, and for your dialogue between York and Chatham.

  • Neither Mr. Nicoll nor the other pensioner assert that Martin was guilty of a loose life.

  • One end of the deckhouse of the Nassau was occupied by a pensioner of Fulton's, who sold candies and cakes.