0 80th written as a word --
1 one of 80 equal parts of something --
2 (in the position of) the number 80 in a series; 80th: --
They finished eightieth out of a hundred.
Every year they would clock up an eightieth and get a half-pension if they stayed with the company for 40 years.
If it was an eightieth-based scheme, they would get 40 eightieths on retirement—in other words, a half-pension.
There you have a country which is five times greater in area than our own, with a population of only one-eightieth the number.
To put the matter in perspective, 250,000 cu m of mahogany—or one eightieth of the total—were harvested over a two-year period earlier in the decade.
An appreciation of his eightieth birthday.
Eleven eightieths of that amounts to £4,307,875.
I agree generally that assistance must go where it is needed, but certainly the figure of eleven-eightieths to which he referred must go by the board.
The new proposal is based on so many eightieths for so many years service, plus pension-able emoluments and so on, and that may amount to more than£1,700 a year.