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half pay
noun
- half one's regular pay.
- a reduced amount paid to a British army or navy officer when not in actual service or after retirement.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of half pay1
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Example Sentences
The other half pay to Miss Alice Arden, and the entire capital you are to secure to her on your death.
Four days later the House resolved to grant half-pay to the disbanded officers till they should be otherwise provided for.
Reduced to half-pay, during the Restoration, he nevertheless preserved his rank and officer's cross.
He was in friendly relations with Derville, the attorney, who commissioned him with a sort of half-pay for Colonel Chabert.
And still Miss Grundy told her fifty times a day that "she didn't half pay her way, to say nothing about the young one."
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