half pay

noun, adj — 2 senses

nounalso spelled half-pay

Reduced pay, as of naval or military officers when not in active service.

half-pay

adj

Receiving reduced pay, as a naval or military officer does when not in active service.

One of the half-pay men brought me a nasty wavy dagger that had been picked up in the road. 'One of your Indian curiosities, I suppose, Dr Tulloch?' he remarked.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

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