Usually means: Reduced salary during limited activity.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. half-pay: Vocabulary.com
  2. Half-pay, half-pay: Wordnik
  3. half-pay: Dictionary.com
  4. Half-pay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. half-pay: Rhymezone
  6. half-pay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. half-pay: FreeDictionary.org
  8. half-pay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. half-pay, Half-pay: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half-pay: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wikipedia (Half-pay)

noun:  (h.p.) a term used in the British Army and Royal Navy of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to the pay or allowance an officer received when in retirement or not in actual service.


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