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half-pay

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Noun1.half-pay - reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time
pay, remuneration, salary, wage, earnings - something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"
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half-pay [ˈhɑːfˈpeɪ]
A. N → media paga f
to retire on half-pay → jubilarse con media paga
B. CPD half-pay officer N → militar m retirado


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Kenwigs and Susan, yesterday was a week she eloped with a half-pay captain
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He had a scar on his forehead, which did not so much injure his beauty as it denoted his valour (for he was a half-pay officer).
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Was it fair, was it honorable, that a half-pay surgeon should take such advantage of an intimacy which chance had brought about?
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