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half pay

half pay noun: reduced pay, as of naval or military officers when not in active service.

Noun

half pay (uncountable)

  1. Reduced pay, as of naval or military officers when not in active service.

half pay meaning in Tamil and Kannada

half pay in Tamil

அரைச் சம்பளம்

half pay in Kannada

ಅರ್ಧವೇತನ

Questions about half pay

What does half pay mean?
Half pay means reduced pay, as of naval or military officers when not in active service.
What is half pay in Tamil?
Half pay in Tamil is அரைச் சம்பளம். See Half pay meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is half pay?
Half pay is a noun.

Words near half pay in the dictionary

  1. half note
  2. half notes
  3. half orphan
  4. half orphans
  5. half past
  6. half pay
  7. half pike
  8. half pipe
  9. half pipes
  10. half polluted
  11. half pounder

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Adapted from Wiktionary: half pay (page history and authors); half pay (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); half pay (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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