pensionablepen‧sion‧a‧ble /ˈpenʃənəbəl/ adjective British English 
36% of the population were of pensionable age.2pensionable pay/salary etc pay from which money is regularly taken for a pension: The employee’s contribution is 5% of pensionable salary.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- All people of pensionable age have a right, under the Supplementary Benefits Act 1966, to a guaranteed income.
- By the 1890s civil servants had become obliged to retire on reaching pensionable age.
- For 40 years' membership, members receive a pension of two thirds pensionable pay near retirement.
- It applies only to those reaching pensionable age since April 1978 and will not reach full maturity until 1998.
- Nursing in public hospitals was also pensionable, while the more prestigious voluntary hospitals were early pension providers.
- The maximum pension will now be 20 percent, rather than 25 percent of average pensionable earnings.
- This may reflect the fact that they are not in pensionable service with their employing organisation.
- To qualify for the higher limit, disablement must occur before reaching pensionable age.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY 36% of the population were of pensionable age.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
36% of the population were of pensionable age.· The threshold for childless couples under pensionable age was 57 percent above income support levels.· To qualify for the higher limit, disablement must occur before reaching pensionable age.· All people of pensionable age have a right, under the Supplementary Benefits Act 1966, to a guaranteed income.· By the 1890s civil servants had become obliged to retire on reaching pensionable age.· It applies only to those reaching pensionable age since April 1978 and will not reach full maturity until 1998.· The number of those over pensionable age will be far higher in the next century than it is today.· Raising the pensionable age, however, was not enough to meet the Treasury's requirements.· In 1963 my father died at the age of sixty-one, four years short of his pensionable age.
· The scheme provides a pension on retirement linked to final pensionable pay near that time.· For 40 years' membership, members receive a pension of two thirds pensionable pay near retirement.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1giving someone the right to receive a pension: - For 40 years' membership, members receive a pension of two thirds pensionable pay near retirement.
- The scheme provides a pension on retirement linked to final pensionable pay near that time.
36% of the population were of pensionable age.2pensionable pay/salary etc pay from which money is regularly taken for a pension: The employee’s contribution is 5% of pensionable salary.