pensioner

pensioner
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Sl. get under one's skin; stir, move, melt, soften, touch the heart, tug at the heart strings, get [s.o.] right here; impress, make an impression, have an impact, come over, come across, register, sink in, come home to, get through to.
4. understand, comprehend, apprehend, fathom, discern, see, perceive, make out, realize, Sl. savvy, Sl. dig, Brit. Sl. suss; follow, read, take in, Scot. ken, Inf. get the picture, Inf. get the message, Inf. get the idea, Inf. get it, Inf. catch the drift; seize, get a hold of, get a grip on; see through, see [s.t.] as it really is, see [s.t.] in its true colors, Inf. have [s.o.'s] number, Sl. be wise to, Sl. be on to, Sl. have dead to rights; solve, resolve, decode, decipher, crack, work out, figure out, untangle, unriddle, unravel.
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n
pensionary, annuitant; beneficiary, recipient, grantee, dependent.

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