pensioner

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Sources revealed the pensioner was admitted to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Monday where he was treated for a knife injury.

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  1. noun One who receives a pension.
  2. noun One who is dependent on the bounty of another.
  3. noun Obsolete A gentleman-at-arms.
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  • He was at the same time a pensioner, a companion, and confidential factotum of his old friend the Earl of Northumberland both in the Tower and at Sion for fifteen years. —  Thomas Hariot
  • I think that maybe my tax rate as a pensioner will be 10\% higher. —  Fool.co.uk - Headlines
  • Sources revealed the pensioner was admitted to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Monday where he was treated for a knife injury. —  Daily Express News Feeds
  • Police said they used the device as the pensioner was threatening to cut his throat with a piece of glass in a street in Llandudno, Conwy. —  BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
  • The more a pensioner is assumed to receive from savings, the less credit they receive. —  This is Money | Home
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  1. Formerly also pentioner; from Old French pensioner, from Middle Latin pensionarius, a pensioner: see pensionary.
 

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/ˈpɛnʃənər/
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