pensionee

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noun

A person to whom a pension is paid; a pensioner.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounpensionee (plural pensionees)

plural pensionees

  1. A person to whom a pension is paid; a pensioner.

    The rights of pensionees are contractual.

    1935, George Gleason Bogert, The Law of Trusts and Trustees, page 112
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    The number of annuity units to be paid out to a pensionee each month is determined actuarially on retirement and remains the same as long as he lives.

    1960, William J. Casey, How to Invest Pension and Profit-sharing Funds, pages 11–379

    Our Government talks as though it were doling out welfare, and not pensions fully paid for by the pensionee, and his employers.

    1975, United States Senate Special Committee on Aging, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, page 154

Origin

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