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pension

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


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If the ratio of workers to pensioners continues to compress, the tax base required to fund rising healthcare and pension costs becomes increasingly strained.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

She says the pension, Social Security and investments will cover anything that comes up.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

That includes tough rules on deficits, an independent central bank, and a pension system that indexes retirement to lengthening lifespans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

"This would mean people who are working hard now - the millennials - when they retire would have a very poor pension," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

At last he would put the letter away carefully and begin his brooding again, trying to recall out of his past some telling fact that might help him in getting his pension.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

In Finland, depression is the leading individual cause of both extended sick leave and disability pensions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

They’re saving because a hospital bill could wipe them out, rural pensions are a pittance and migrant workers in cities still can’t access urban social-safety nets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

She promised cost savings of 15-20 billion euros within pensions alone by correcting "inefficient and unfair" measures in the current system.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

His parents, both 80 and in excellent health, own their home outright and have about $600,000 in a brokerage account, in addition to pensions and Social Security.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

After asking several widows, I found the government building where pensions were given out.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

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

From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring him from his post as "Inspector General for Austria."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The period-of-presumption idea was done away with entirely, the Government pensioning War veterans frankly on their civil disability.

From Time Magazine Archive

In several annual reports the General Superintendent has urged upon Congress that some provision be made for pensioning disabled clerks.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 by Various




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