Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.
Someone who is at the age at which one typically receives a pension; an elderly person.
A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges.
From Middle English pensioner, from Anglo-Norman pensionner and Old French pensionnier, from Medieval Latin pēnsiōnārius. By surface analysis, pension + -er.
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