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• n  reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time

• The admiral gave birth to a baby girl and was put on "half-pay.
• Last November when he reached the age of 60 he was supposed, like all Cunard skippers, to be retired on half-pay for three years, to be pensioned thereafter for life.
• Professors and other officials at the University of Kentucky have not drawn more than half-pay for months.