单词 | old age pensioner |
释义 | old age pensionern. A person who receives an old age pension. Abbreviated OAP. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payment in consideration of past service > pensioner stipendiaryc1584 outpensioner1706 pensioner1721 letterman1724 in-pensioner1761 pensionnaire1897 old age pensioner1909 1909 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 11 371 In the three colonies combined there are nearly 50,000 old age pensioners, who receive from the public revenues over $5,000,000 per annum. 1951 Bull. Nat. Old People's Welfare Comm. Feb. 10 In one London Borough on a given day each week old-age pensioners may attend the Municipal Baths at a cost of 1d. per bath. 1976 Sunday Tel. 30 May 1/6 Sixteen old-age pensioners were injured..when a coach from Dundee crashed over an embankment. 2002 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 30 June (Seven Days section) 2/1 A licence to roam the streets letting off bangers up closes, down dunneys and underneath unsuspecting old-age pensioners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1909 |
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