half-pay

1. 1.

   reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time

   Broaderwage

Questions about half-pay

What does half-pay mean?

half-pay means "reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time".

How many syllables are in half-pay?

half-pay has 2 syllables: half--pay. The stress falls on "half-".

Is half-pay a common word?

half-pay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.