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quarter pay n.
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1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 275 The seamen shall be..kept in quarter pay till spring.
1798 tr. P. Barras & Lagarde Let. in Coll. State Papers War against France VI. ii. 14 The pensions of all military persons will be revised into half or quarter pay, discharged like it, exactly and monthly.
1843 J. F. Cooper Wyandotte I. ix. 141 With my present feelings, I should indeed be sorry to be on half-pay, or quarter-pay, were there such a thing.
1957 Times 31 Oct. 11/6 A scheme on such lines could probably yield quarter-pay pensions payable from 65 (for both sexes).
2003 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 25 Oct. 10 Long-suffering spa staff were yesterday told that they were being put on quarter pay for 12 weeks.
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