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Half pay

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half of the wages or salary; reduced pay; as, an officer on half pay.
See under Half.

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It was a sunny room with two windows that reached to the floor; it had been the parlour of a house which at one time was if not fashionable at least respectable: it might have been inhabited fifty years before by a well-to-do tradesman or an officer on half pay.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Turned out by my Lords of the Admiralty to starve on half pay.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
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