Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Constituting a pension.
- adjective Mercenary; venal.
- noun A pensioner.
- noun A hireling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of a pension; consisting in a pension: as, a pensionary provision for maintenance.
- Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension.
- noun A person who receives a pension from government for past services, or a yearly allowance from some company or individual; a pensioner.
- noun Formerly, a chief magistrate in the larger towns of Holland.
- noun A house in which pensioners reside; formerly, at Cambridge, England, a residence for undergraduates not on the foundation of a college.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension.
- adjective Consisting of a pension.
- noun One who receives a pension; a pensioner.
- noun One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.
- noun the title of the prime minister, or or president of the Council, of Holland when a republic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who receives a
pension ; apensioner - noun historical A leading
functionary andlegal adviser of the principal town corporations in theNetherlands . - adjective maintained by a pension; receiving a pension
- adjective pertaining to a pension
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who works only for money
- noun the beneficiary of a pension fund
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Examples
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That neither the American public nor its government will no longer tolerate being the pensionary policeman to the oil producer's extortion.
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But I must also think of the total ruin of the cause, the confiscation and bloodshed which will take place among his adherents, and all through the infatuation with which he adheres to a woman who is the pensionary of the present minister, as she was for years
Redgauntlet 2008
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The other is (I hear) intended for a share in the ad [ministratio] n, and the pensionary vouches for his being duly qualified — The only instance I ever heard of his sagacity, was his deserting his former patron, when he found him declining in power, and in disgrace with the people.
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The Ragamuffinism of the pensionary maimed Soldiers.
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The Ragamuffinism of the pensionary maimed Soldiers.
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John De Witt became pensionary of Holland and thereby controlled the general policy.
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Schimmelpenninck, the present grand pensionary of the Batavian Republic, was destined by his education for the bar, but by his natural parts to await in quiet obscurity the end of a dull existence.
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"Well! let us then make him a grand pensionary and a locum tenens for five years; or until Jerome, when he repents, returns to his duty, and is pardoned."
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"Is he, then, not to be a grand pensionary for life?" asked Talleyrand;
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Some pretended that the whole was paid down beforehand, being advanced by a society of merchants at Amsterdam, the friends or relatives of the grand pensionary; others, that it is to be paid by annual instalments of two millions of livres -- for a certain number of years.
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