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Definition of Half-pay
1. Noun. Reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-pay
Literary usage of Half-pay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"APPEAL from the Court of Claims to review an award of half pay to an Army officer
... 1913, § 2104, for half pay as a captain of cavalry of fifteen years' ..."
2. The Military Laws of the United States: Relating to the Army, Volunteers by United States, John F. Callan (1868)
"An Act to extend an Act entitled " An Act1 to continue half pay to certain widows
and orphans," approved February three, eighteen hundred and ..."
3. The Military Laws of the United States: Relating to the Army, Volunteers by United States, John F. Callan (1863)
"An Act to extend an Act entitled ll An Act1 to continue half pay to certain
wid'jvf aid orphans" approved February three, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. ..."
4. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1828)
"That the hon. member, when he reads through the half-pay list, finds that there
are not only colonels and majors, but even lieutenants and ensigns, ..."
5. History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the by George Ticknor Curtis (1861)
"Under this resolve, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New each officer was entitled to
receive Jersey, and South Carolina. half-pay annually, for the term of 3 ..."
6. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1859)
"Re it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That all those surviving widows half-pay ..."
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