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Dictionary: pen·sion·er   (pĕn'shə-nər) pronunciation
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n.
  1. One who receives a pension.
  2. One who is dependent on the bounty of another.
  3. Obsolete.
    1. A gentleman-at-arms.
    2. An attendant; a retainer.

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WordNet: pensioner
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the beneficiary of a pension fund
  Synonym: pensionary

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Population aged at least 65 years in 2005

In common parlance, a pensioner is a person who has retired, and now collects a pension. This is a term typically used in the United Kingdom and Australia where someone of pensionable age may also be referred to as an 'old age pensioner', or OAP. In the United States, the term retiree is more common. In many countries, increasing life expectancy has led to an expansion of the numbers of pensioners, and they are a growing political force.

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  • In the University of Cambridge, a pensioner is a student who is not a scholar or sizar and who pays for his or her tuition and commons. The term commoner may also be applied, especially at the University of Oxford.
  • A Political pensioner is a member of a formerly ruling dynasty who is paid a 'pension' (e.g. by the British raj) as a partial compensation for the income lost by not exercising an ancestral claim to a native throne
  • A Chelsea Pensioner is a retired British soldier who lives within the Royal Hospital
  • In the Thoroughbred breeding industry, a pensioner is a stallion who has been retired from stud duty due to declining fertility (usually related to age).

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Translations: Pensioner
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - pensionist

Nederlands (Dutch)
AOWer, gepensioneerde, ceremoniële koninklijke lijfwacht (Brits), huurling

Français (French)
n. - retraité

Deutsch (German)
n. - Rentner, Pensionär

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - συνταξιούχος

Italiano (Italian)
pensionato

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pensionista, aposentado (m)

Русский (Russian)
пенсионер

Español (Spanish)
n. - jubilado, pensionista

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - pensionär, ostipendierad student Cambridge), legodräng

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
领养老金者, 受豢养者, 受雇佣者, 卫士

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 領養老金者, 受豢養者, 受雇傭者, 衛士

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 연금(따위의) 수령자, (Cambridge 대학의) 자비생

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 年金受給者, 年金受領者, 雇い人

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) محال على التقاعد أو المعاش, من أرباب المعاشات‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮גמלאי, פנסיונר, קצבאי‬

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