HALF-PAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-pay mean? 

• HALF-PAY (noun)
  The noun HALF-PAY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HALF-PAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-PAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("half-pay" is a kind of...):

earnings; pay; remuneration; salary; wage (something that remunerates)

 Context examples 

My father had been placed on half-pay, like so many others of the old war officers, and so, for nearly two years, he was able to remain with us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)