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单词 senior citizen
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senior citizen
c. senior citizen, a term for an elderly person, esp. one who is past the age of retirement. Originally U.S.Frequently used in official communications and by the media as a euphemism for ‘old-age pensioner’.
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1938 Time 24 Oct. 12/2 Mr. Downey had an inspiration to do something on behalf of what he calls, for campaign purposes, ‘our senior citizens’.
1956 School & Society (U.S.) 12 May 169 As a basis for their education, it [sc. pragmatism] is good for the young, the middle-aged, and our senior citizens.
1962 British Advent Messenger 28 Sept. 30/2 Owing to the extensive alterations to be done it was October 27, 1958, before we could welcome any of those dear senior citizens who were so anxiously waiting to enter the Home.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iv. 90 Vesperhaven House, a home for senior citizens that Inverarity had put up.
1969 Listener 23 Jan. 101/2 More organised resistance came from the ‘senior citizen’—or ‘old age pensioners’—lobby.
1974 H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World iv. 56 We staggered up the bank to the village like senior citizens en route to the post office to collect their pensions.
1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn xxi. 192 She is a retired person, a senior citizen, you might say.
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