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noncontributory

/ -trɪ; ˌnɒnkənˈtrɪbjʊtərɪ /

adjective

    1. denoting an insurance or pension scheme for employees, the premiums of which are paid entirely by the employer
    2. (of a state benefit) not dependent on national insurance contributions
  1. not providing contribution; noncontributing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Less-skilled immigrants to countries with noncontributory welfare states can start drawing benefits fairly quickly, regardless of their contribution.

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For all its employees, Prudential has free medical care, a noncontributory pension plan, and extra vacation days for good attendance; but Vice President Charles Fleetwood decided he would have to do "something special" to staff his new southwestern headquarters.

Already a very active contributor to the "noncontributory" coal miners' pension fund, and with prospects of shortly assuming similar paternalism in behalf of the steel worker I don't see how I can conscientiously fail to do as well by the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker .

Although union leaders have fought bitterly to impose such noncontributory pensions on management, do the rank & file of unionists really want them?

The biggest�and among the oldest�of the noncontributory plans are those of the Bell system�A.T.

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