1(of a post or employee) belonging to a superannuation scheme.
‘she is not superannuated and has no paid holiday’
‘The council is holding its financial breath over the burgeoning black hole in the local authority's superannuated final salary pension scheme.’
‘They are employees of the state sector who enjoy superannuated job security amidst an ocean of poverty.’
‘Some superannuated blokes are still wearing the long hair of a 1970s pop or football star, even though their face resemble a wrinkled prune.’
‘The superannuated may perhaps devote themselves to reflection and advice.’
‘A claim was made and accepted by Comcare at that time and, indeed, Ms Holt was superannuated out of the public service within 12 months.’
‘It's incredible that someone who, these days, is undoubtedly more superannuated than itinerant can still sound this convincing.’
‘Tactfully, she suggested to the editors at OUP that they make the necessary emendation silently lest the shock of being faulted be too much for my superannuated frame.’
‘I'm on the money train now and am looking forward to a modestly superannuated future.’
‘I was invited to his evening assemblies which were, as I have stated before, frequented by superannuated women and men.’
‘Now we can hope to solve the problem of the unemployed adult only by removing the adolescent and the superannuated from the labor market.’
‘Underwood - a superannuated widower - has two daughters.’
2Outdated or obsolete through age or new developments.
‘superannuated computing equipment’
‘a superannuated hippy’
‘People should use the internet to inform their purchasing rather than some superannuated arbitrary knees-up.’
‘Hollywood is the graveyard for all the uprooted cultural artifacts of a superannuated tradition.’
‘Mind you, the annals of British sportscasting contain many examples of superannuated pundits who soldier on well past their sell-by dates.’
‘A dull - eyed shop assistant feeds the card into a superannuated time-clock which has been through a retraining course.’
‘Off I went, an overweight, superannuated jockey, knees hovering near my armpits.’
‘The PRC's combat aircraft are also superannuated, which exacerbates the problems of the PLAN.’
‘He could have spared a world of superannuated history, science, or politics, to have reversed better in waltzing.’
‘I'M getting a bit fed up with superannuated pop stars flying over in their Learjets just to tell us to make less car journeys.’
‘His only job is as a superannuated marriage guidance counsellor to Blair and Brown.’
‘Pirate radio was about to be superannuated by the BBC shake-up that would give rise to Radio One.’
‘The new dormitory is smart, though furnished, bizarrely, with superannuated conservatory chairs donated by a nearby hotel.’
‘What is stopping these same artists - in their latest guises, solo, whatever - pulling their fingers out and delivering us new musical thrills to challenge the superannuated repertoire?’
‘Superannuated anchorman Dan Rather plays the toast.’
‘The putative author is indeed Cheeta, the superannuated chimpanzee star of just short of a dozen Tarzan movies and the sidekick of American beefcake Johnny Weissmuller.’
‘The superannuated dames and amateur comedians of old are gone: in their place is a pacy and entertaining contemporary pantomime.’
‘However, workplace practices and the physical landscape of the cities have improved so much that the old fears of a modern visual wasteland are by now superannuated.’
‘Without regressive evolution to prune the phenotype, all species would be encumbered by billion-year-long lists of superannuated traits.’
‘I know that the economy of rural Ireland operates in a hermetically sealed way, oblivious to the world of Dublin and its superannuated airheads.’
‘I suspect this was originally part of a superannuated multimillion-dollar Qantas flight simulator.’
‘The fracturing isn't part of the willful formal fracturing that accompanies the superannuated term "experimental."’
old, old-fashioned, antiquated, out of date, outmoded, anachronistic, broken-down, outworn