pensionary

1. 1.

   the beneficiary of a pension fund

   Synonymspensioner

   Broaderbeneficiary

   Narrowerold-age pensioner
2. 2.

   a person who works only for money

   Synonymshireling

   Broaderemployee

Other forms of pensionary

plural

pensionaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pensionary

What does pensionary mean?

pensionary means "the beneficiary of a pension fund". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pensionary?

pensionary has 5 syllables: pen-si-o-na-ry. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for pensionary?

Close synonyms include pensioner, hireling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pensionary a common word?

pensionary 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.