Pensioner

Definition: Pensioner

Pensioner

Noun

1. The beneficiary of a pension fund.

Date "pensioner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Insurance	A person who receives a pension. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Pensioner

Synonym: pensionary (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Receiving	Sportulary, stipendiary; beneficiary; pensioner, pensionary; almsman.
Servant	Serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot; bondsman, bondswoman; bondslave; ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe; villian, villein; beadsman, bedesman; sizar; pensioner, pensionary; client; dependant, dependent; hanger on, satellite; parasite; (servility); led captain; protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Pensioner

Specialty definitions using "pensioner": GREENWICH GOOSE ♦ PETTICOAT PENSIONER. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Avgifter fèor utbetalning av statliga lèoner och pensioner (reference) Elèakelèaistalouksien tulo- ja kulutusrakenne vuonna 1976 = Structure of pensioner households' incomes and consumption in 1976 (reference) Fordelingen af private pensioner : rapport til Socialministeriet fra forskningsprojektet "Private pensioner frem mod êar 2000" (reference) Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne; a pensioner of the navy of the Revolution (reference) Pensioner i det nya skattesystemet (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Mr. Bob Mullins, old age pensioner in Penfield, Greene County, Georgia.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Arthur Schopenhauer	The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Pensioner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pensioner" is used about 603 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
Noun (singular)	100%	603	10,628

Expression using "pensioner": old age pensioner. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "pensioner": non-pensioner.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "pensioner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		pensionaris (retired, retired person, retiree), pensioentrekker (retired, retired person, retiree). (various references)

Albanian		pensionist (Pensionary, retiree), rrogëtar (Pensionary, salaried, stipendiary, wage earner, wageworker). (various references)

Arabic		‏المحال للتقاعد, ‏المتقاعد (pensionary). (various references)

Bulgarian		пенсионер (retiree). (various references)

Chinese		领抚恤金. (various references)

Czech		penzista (Pensionary), dùchodce (senior citizen). (various references)

Danish		person, der har ret til pension eller rente (person entitled to a pension), pensionsmodtager, pensionist eller rentemodtager (person entitled to a pension), pensionist (annuitant, retired employe, retired employee, retired person), pensionberettiget (annuitant, retired employe, retired employee, retired person), rentier (annuitant, retired employe, retired employee, retired person), rentenyder (annuitant, retired employe, retired employee, retired person), rentemodtager. (various references)

Dutch		pensioentrekker (retired person, retiree), gepensioneerde (annuitant, retired employe, retired employee, retired person, retiree). (various references)

Esperanto		pensiulo (retiree). (various references)

Farsi		مستمری بگیر, وظیفه خوار (Beneficiary), بازنشسته (Retired). (various references)

Finnish		eläkeläinen. (various references)

French		retraité (retired person). (various references)

German		Rentner (annuitant, old age pensioner, person entitled to a pension, retired employe, retired employee, retired person, retired worker, senior citizen), Pensionär (annuitant, boarder, paying guest, pensionary, retired employe, retired employee, retired man, retired person, retiree), Ruhegehaltsempfänger (annuitant, retired employe, retired employee, retired person). (various references)

Greek		συνταξιούχος (annuitant, retired employe, retired employee, retired person, senior citizen). (various references)

Hebrew		מקבל קצב�", פ� סיו� ר, �'מלאי. (various references)

Hungarian		nyugdíjas (pensionary, retired). (various references)

Indonesian		pensiunan. (various references)

Italian		pensionato (annuitant, boarding house, hostel, old age pensioner, on pension, rest home, retired, retired employe, retired employee, retired person). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		受給者 (a pensioner, recipient of payments), 年金受給者 (a pensioner). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ね�"き�"じゅきゅうしゃ (a pensioner), じゅきゅうしゃ (a pensioner, recipient of payments). (various references)

Korean		연금 수� �자. (various references)

Manx		penshyneyr. (various references)

Pig Latin		ensionerpay

Portuguese		pensionista (boarder, guest, inmate, lodging, Pensionary, retiree). (various references)

Romanian		pensionar (Pensionary). (various references)

Russian		пенсионер (boarder, retiree). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		penzioner (pensionary, retiree). (various references)

Spanish		pensionista (annuitant, retired employe, retired employee, retired person). (various references)

Swedish		pensionär. (various references)

Turkish		pansiyoner (boarder, lodger, paying guest, roomer), yatılı okul öğrencisi, emekli (old age pensioner, retired, retiring, superannuated). (various references)

Ukranian		пенсіонер. (various references)

Vietnamese		người được hưởng lương hưu người được hưởng trợ cấp. (various references)

Welsh		pensiynwr. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pensioner": pensioners. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pensioner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pelseneer, pencionem, Pensionary, pensionat, pensione, pensionne, Pensynnu, Penzini, penzione, sessioneer. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pensioner" (pronounced pe"nshuner)
4	-sh u n er	Commissioner, conditioner, confectioner, executioner, freshener, parishioner, petitioner, practitioner, probationer, stationer, vacationer.
3	-u n er	bargainer, commoner, coroner, examiner, Falconer, fastener, foreigner, gardener, hardener, laminar, listener, mariner, milliner, oftener, opener, prisoner, questioner, reasoner, softener, stiffener, sweetener, thickener, Waggoner, Wagoner.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-n-o-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: isoprene, pensione, pioneers.
	-2 letters: erepsin, openers, orpines, penners, pennies, pension, peonies, pereion, pinenes, pinners, pinones, pioneer, reopens, repines, spinner.
	-3 letters: eosine, inners, irones, nereis, nosier, opener, opines, orpine, orpins, penner, pennis, peones, pereon, person, pinene, pinner, pinons, poiser, ponies, preens, prions, prison, renins, reopen, repine, repins, repose, ripens, seiner, senior, serein, serine, sinner.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-n-o-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: pensioners, prednisone, prehension, pretension, reopenings.
	+2 letters: nonreceipts, omnipresent, prednisones, prehensions, pretensions, preventions, prominences, septentrion.
	+3 letters: apprehension, copresenting, hypertension, isoprenaline, nonpasserine, omnipresence, overspending, penetrations, pensionaries, perennations, precensoring, prednisolone, prenominates, presentation, pretensioned, proveniences, recompensing, reinspection, reprehension, septentrions, supervention, unresponsive.
	+4 letters: antipersonnel, apprehensions, comprehension, countersniper, hypertensions, interceptions, interpersonal, interspersion, isoprenalines, nondispersive, nonmembership, nonperishable, nonpermissive, nonpersistent, nonresponsive, omnipresences, overexpansion, penuriousness, prednisolones, predominances, premoistening, presentations, pretensioning, reconceptions, reinspections, reprehensions, septentrional, superventions, underexposing, unpretentious.
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