old age security
/ˌəʊld eɪdʒ sɪˈkjʊərɪti/ /ˌəʊld eɪdʒ sɪˈkjɔːrɪti/noun
Financial and material provision for old age; (Canadian and (formerly) US (especially California)) a system of government-funded pensions for those aged over 65 (in the U.S., awarded only on a means-tested basis); the benefit paid under this system.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in untitled. From old age + security.
- scaleability
- scaleable
- scale armour
- scale board
- scaled
- scaled-down
- scale insect
- scale leaf
- scaleless
- scalene
- scalene muscle
- scalenus
- scale of notation
- scale pan
- scaler
- scale something back/down (or up)
- scale worm
- Scalia, Antonin
- Scaliger, Joseph Justus
- Scaliger, Julius Caesar
- scaliness
- scaling ladder
- scallion
- scallop
- scalloper