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pension

[pen-shuhn, pahn-syawn] / ˈpɛn ʃən, pɑ̃ˈsjɔ̃ /


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I retired eight months ago and have a regular defined-benefit pension, Roth IRA, traditional IRA and other investments.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

My mother has a pension, Social Security, investments and a house probably worth over $1 million.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

Like Sarah Moorhouse she won't get her UK state pension until she is 67.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

It also would authorize a new, more generous pension formula that public-safety employees and local governments could negotiate in collective-bargaining.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

From Granny I learned—over a course of years—that he had been wounded in the Civil War and had never received his disability pension, a fact which he hugged close to his heart with bitterness.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Hedge funds have been on the opposite path as pensions, increasing their Treasury bets.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

It pays out pensions in hard cash, it takes payment for utility bills.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

They set pensions up for both kids when they were born and have been paying into them through a monthly direct debit.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

The savings, pensions and retirement income specialist posted a strong set of results, with operating profit ahead of consensus, supported by strong growth in assets under administration, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

“They get holidays, don’t they? And — and sick leave, and pensions, and everything?”

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

The family is now composed of the same sort of banal attention-seekers and time-servers as the rest of Europe’s pensioned aristocracy, which includes Facebook-addled coup plotters and Epstein island guests of honor.

From Slate Apr. 21, 2023

Due to a deteriorating psychiatric condition, Ms Murray was pensioned off from the civil service in August 2019.

From BBC Feb. 15, 2022

The airline struggled with a 51-day pilots' strike between September and November 2017, grounding half its fleet and resulting in dozens of pilots being fired, while others resigned or were pensioned off.

From Reuters Nov. 25, 2021

A horse is pensioned when it is no longer available for breeding.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 16, 2020

“Not that it need come to that,” Mr. Owen blurted, meaning Tansy might marry and be saved before she was pensioned off.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Downpour and Inferno are states that people drive between pensioning their senators and whitegoods.

From New York Times Apr. 15, 2022

To become eligible for pensioning, an Episcopal minister must be 68, retired or disabled.

From Time Magazine Archive

More important, he ruled that pensioning railway employes had nothing to do with regulating interstate commerce.

From Time Magazine Archive

If that meant that the company was pensioning him off, Mr. Pratt must have had his tongue in his cheek.

From Time Magazine Archive

How well would the revenues of a country be expended, if, by mere pensioning, one-fifth of its population could be induced to live as I do!

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing




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