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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.
Turned out by my Lords of the Admiralty to starve on half pay.
 
 
 
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