Half-pay

Definition: Half-pay

Half-pay

Noun

1. Reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time.

Non-Fiction Usage: Half-pay

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Colombia	The Ministry of Defense and the Fiscalia reported that all military and police charged with a human rights crimes are suspended from their duties and placed on half-pay. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Half-pay

"Half-pay" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 52.94% of the time. "Half-pay" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	52.94%	9	117,287
Noun (singular)	47.06%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

Modern Translations: Half-pay

Language		Translations for "half-pay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		nyugdíjas katonatiszt (half-pay officer). (various references)

Pig Latin		alf-payhay.(various references)

Vietnamese		nửa lương. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Half-pay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-f-h-l-p-y"
	-2 letters: alpha, haply, phyla, playa.
	-3 letters: alfa, ayah, flap, flay, haaf, half, hyla, paly, play.
	-4 letters: aah, aal, aha, ala, alp, fay, fly, hap, hay, hyp, lap, lay, pah, pal, pay, ply, pya, yah, yap.
	-5 letters: aa, ah, al, ay, fa, ha, la, pa, ya.
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