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, page 112:

     The rights of pensionees are contractual.

   • 1960, William J. Casey, How to Invest Pension and Profit-sharing Funds, pages 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, page 154:

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