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Answer for the clue "Pensioner, often ", 7 letters:
retiree

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n. someone who has retired from active working

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n. someone who has retired from active working [syn: retired person ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A 1988 Gallup survey indicated that active retirees registered fewer sleep complaints than those who were less active. ▪ But for most retirees, acquiring unconditional non-resident status can take up to three years. ▪ But he ...

Usage examples of retiree.

Why, from the very moment an American started building his or her Miami Moorish house in the exclusive colony which the Meskins disparagingly called Disneylandia, the poor, helpless, despised retiree could expect to be gulled, bilked, hoodwinked and price-gouged by every Meskin contractor, carpenter, plumber, etc.

Also, to the Meskin pickpockets who infested every street fiesta, the retirees regularly lost their trifocals, hearing aids, corsets, prostatic catheters and pacemaker battery packs.

The article recounted several real estate deals gone sour, among them a construction project down in Baja named Playa del Sol: high-end condos peddled to American retirees lured by American-style luxury living at Mexican prices.

Around the time of the proceedings, both parts of the now united Germany were experiencing a series of right-wing extremist criminal acts, among them the attempted killing of a Hungarian in Potsdam with baseball bats and the beating of a retiree in Bochum that led to his death.

His accent was a mixture of Brooklynese and Italian, his attire strictly Floridian retiree.

Baja Naja outdoor restaurant just off Mill did not draw a second glance from the late-lunch crowd of students, teachers, office workers, retirees, and tourists.

Asian male who strolled into the Baja Naja outdoor restaurant just off Mill did not draw a second glance from the late-lunch crowd of students, teachers, office workers, retirees, and tourists.

He stood in line alongside restless schoolchildren on field trips, vaguely interested retirees, and a few military buffs.

Muttonchops realized that Dylan was watching him, when their eyes met in the mirror above the urinals, the retiree quickly looked away.

There were young couples, retirees, pretty young women, middle-aged women in stretch pants and cardigans, leatherfaced cowboys fresh from the range and soft-faced rich men on junkets from far cities, secretaries, truckers, executives, doctors, ex-cons and off-duty cops, hustlers and dreamers, escapees from every social background, drawn together by the hope and thrill of organized games of chance, surely the most democratizing industry on earth.

The recent financial disaster in Sawdust City is going to leave hundreds of families and retirees with no hope of a Christmas, and the Country Club is undertaking to buy food, toys, and clothing for them.

Senator Collingsworth wondered, "how do these five retirees on board fit into the picture?

Eventually, the growth of evangelical Christian churches and the influx of retirees from the Midwest combined with the success of the big companies to make northwest Arkansas the most Republican and most conservative part of the state, with the exception of Fayetteville, where the university kept things in closer balance.

Retiree vagabonds of a certain age, already worried about turning radiuses and tricky angles of approach to their campsite hookups, turned as pale as Milk of Magnesia if they were unfortunate enough to be required to slot-park their humbler Winnebagos and Air-streams in this beast's shadow, and most regarded the leviathan with resentment or paranoid terror.

This was a drastic measure that only promoted more hysteria at Otter Creeka herd of yipping, squatting miniature poodles dragging scores of Sansabelted retirees across the landscaping.