half-pay

adjective

Receiving reduced pay, as a naval or military officer does when not in active service.

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Meanings

adjectivehalf-pay (not comparable)
  1. not comparableReceiving reduced pay, as a naval or military officer does when not in active service.

    One of the half-pay men brought me a nasty wavy dagger that had been picked up in the road. 'One of your Indian curiosities, I suppose, Dr Tulloch?' he remarked.

    1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
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Chicago

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