pensionee

pensionee

English

Etymology

pension +‎ -ee

Noun

pensionee (plural pensionees)

1. A person to whom a pension is paid; a pensioner.
   • 1935, George Gleason Bogert , The Law of Trusts and Trustees, p. 112:

     The rights of pensionees are contractual.

   • 1960, William J. Casey, How to Invest Pension and Profit-sharing Funds, p. 11-379:

     The number of annuity units to be paid out to a pensionee each month is determined actuarially on retirement and remains the same as long as he lives.

   • 1975, United States Senate Special Committee on Aging, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, p. 154.

     Our Government talks as though it were doling out welfare, and not pensions fully paid for by the pensionee, and his employers.