If governments impose green tax hikes and the costly measures on transportation, home heating, power generation and lifestyles that scientists say are needed to lower emissions and to shift economies away from dependency on fossil fuels, they risk prompting a backlash, largely from middle-class and lower-income workers, as well as pensioners who can ill afford to bear the expense.

She's a widow and a pensioner, and faces many hardships.

The restaurant was full of pensioners taking advantage of the early-bird special.

For British pensioners living in Europe, the anxiety has been compounded by watching the purchasing power of the pound weaken as sterling fell in value after the Brexit vote.

Tom's a pensioner.

Tom is a pensioner.

Mary is a pensioner.

The con artist victimizes elderly pensioners.

Pensioners also lambasted the measures.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.