Word Finder - pensioners

definition

Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.

synonyms

• retiree

definition

(by extension) Someone who is at the age at which one typically receives a pension; an elderly person.

synonyms

• older adult
• senior citizen

definition

(Cambridge University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Oxford called a commoner.

Dean wished he could follow the lead of the pensioners and catch a nap.

Here is the royal hospital for pensioners and maimed soldiers.

In 1723 a vote for the government got him the place of captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners.

Pensioners must be British subjects, poor, and not ex-criminals or of notoriously bad character.

In the first three years after enactment of the law the growth of the number of pensioners was very rapid; in the next five it was remarkably slow - only 481 altogether.

Frauds and evasions by applicants and pensioners, though they exist, are not believed to be numerous.

In 1834 he was appointed governor of Greenwich hospital, where thenceforward he devoted himself with conspicuous success to the charge of the naval pensioners; in 1837 he became vice-admiral.

The pensioners now live out and the hospital has been converted into artisans' dwellings.

In 1888 a Portuguese resident was stationed at Salvador, and the kings of Congo became pensioners of the government.

Students after an examination are admitted as fellow-commoners, pensioners or sizars.

Fellow-commoners, who have decreased in numbers in modern times, pay higher fees than the ordinary undergraduates or pensioners, and have certain advantages of precedence, including the right of dining at the fellows' table.

To the poor, Persians are unostentatiously generous; most of the rich have regular pensioners, old servants, or poor relations who live on their bounty; and though there are no workhouses, there are in ordinary times no deaths from starvation; and charity, though not organized, is general..

When the news of the outbreak at Meerut reached Lucknow, Sir Henry Lawrence recognized the gravity of the crisis and summoned from their homes two bodies of pensioners, one of sepoys and one of artillerymen, to whose loyalty, and to that of the Sikh sepoys, the successful defence of the residency was largely due.

All persons with an income of £50 vote in the first; all residents in an urban commune who pay taxes amounting to sixteen shillings yearly, with those who have been through the primary course of education, and all members of the liberal professions, retired officers and state pensioners, vote in the second.

The American war had finally exhausted the exchequer, and, in order to replenish it, he would have needed to inspire confidence in the minds of capitalists; but the resumption in 2778 of the plan of provincial assemblies charged with remodelling the various imposts, and his corn pterendu in which he exhibited the monarchy paying its pensioners for their inactivity as it had never paid its agents for their zeal, aroused a fresh outburst of anger.

Among institutions are the Horniman Museum, Forest Hill (1901); Morden's College, on the south of Blackheath, founded at the close of the 17th century by Sir John Morden for Turkey merchants who were received as pensioners, and subsequently extended in scope; numerous schools in the same locality; and the Park Fever Hospital, Hither Green.

In the first, to the right, is the urn of the poet Basinio, one of his pensioners, in the second that of Giusto de' Conti, author of some rhymes on the Bella Mano, while the third bore the more famous name of Gemisthus Pletho.

They are often incredulous at the sums that the poorest children and pensioners have received.

Last paid admission 3.30pm ADMISSION £ 4.00, concessionary rate for pensioners, students and accompanied children £ 2.00 each.

Pensioners must be guaranteed certainty in their old age, said Mr Bell.

Increasingly alienated from the forces that drive commerce, pensioners are the only true rebels left.

Without real reform the coming decades will see ever more pensioners drawing means tested benefits.

Pensioners say council tax particularly hits them Pensioners groups have angrily denounced Gordon Brown for failing to repeat last year's council tax rebate.

Pensioners are forced to retire and then eke out a miserable living.

Chelsea Pensioners reading the gazette of the Battle of Waterloo.

This will tackle a long-standing grievance of many pensioners.

At the moment these statistics appear to show that we devote approximately 5% of our entire national income to benefits for pensioners.

In his recent Budget, Chancellor Gordon Brown offered a one-off £ 200 refund to pensioners.

For most countries the main benefit for pensioners is the contributory social security pension.

How grim is the outlook for tomorrow's pensioners?

Yes, we've lifted 1.8 million pensioners out of absolute poverty, but I am determined to do more.

In 1997/98, 67% of recently retired pensioners had an income from an occupational pension.

The Secretary of State for Wales, Paul Murphy, urged pensioners entitled to the allowance to claim it.

It is not true to say that there is nothing for today's pensioners.

Either we have poorer pensioners, relative to national income.

I should like the Minister to develop her excellent initiative from last July to ensure that even fewer low-income pensioners receive self-assessment forms.

It was his attitude to others that led him to organize bus outings for old-age pensioners from Malton.

Only among one age group - pensioners - did the Conservatives manage to win a plurality.

An alternative to staying at home, I surmise, was to vote for the pensioners.

Oh, for the flimsy pensioners and truculent barrow boys of yesteryear - whither the legions of faint hearted English whimsy?

Two million pensioners will receive a personal phone call telling them they are entitled to a £ 50 monthly council tax windfall.

Though Trinity hospital no longer exists as a hospital with resident pensioners, the trustees disburse annually pensions to certain poor burgesses and their wives and children; and the trust controlling the benevolent branch of the Gillespie hospital endowment is similarly administered.

That still rankles with pensioners because it meant that the basic state pension did not rise in line with the growth of the economy.

Jeremy Beecham said that not continuing the £ 200 council tax rebate for pensioners was a mistake.

The latest increases have sparked outrage from many quarters especially for people who live on fixed or low incomes, like pensioners.

It includes the trades unions, pensioners ' organizations, the Labor Party, the Co-operative movement and the Communist Party.

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