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Paid a retiree
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pensioned
Word definitions for pensioned in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: pension )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pension \Pen"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pensioned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pensioning .] To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant. One knighted ...
Usage examples of pensioned.
Treuge, a dottering half-blind pedant, who ought to have been pensioned years before.
The pompoms remind me of Papa Brunies, a pensioned teacher who had been recalled to his post during the war.
Ultimately, the strategy failed and Bourne was pensioned off—gold-watch time.