单词 | pension day |
释义 | > as lemmaspension day pension day n. (also pensions day) a day of the week or month on which pensions are regularly paid. ΚΠ 1792 R. Loder Statutes & Ordinances Alms-houses in Woodbridge, Suffolk 4 Four-pence, to be deducted out of his pension, by the Paymaster, at the next pension day. 1827 Times 6 Oct. 3/2 Knowing it to be the pension-day, she thought she should find him at Oxford-market. 1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 24 Jan. 115/3 The maimed soldiers of the last war..wander through the country from town to town, and reappear in the city on pension-day. 1993 R. D. Edwards Clubbed to Death (BNC) 70 I've got caught in the post office once or twice on pension day when I was buying more stamps for my fruitless job applications. < as lemmas |
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