Definition of "pensioner" [pen•sion•er]

• One who receives a pension. (noun)
• One who is dependent on the bounty of another. (noun)
• Obsolete A gentleman-at-arms. (noun)
• Obsolete An attendant; a retainer. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "We are interested in "pensioner" prices instead of our previous mode of traveling as occasional tourists on vacation."
• "DOCTOR JOHNSON wrote his Dictionary, he put in the word pensioner thus:"
• "But the Labour leader's preparations have been overshadowed by the fall out and negative headlines after he called a pensioner he had met "bigoted"."