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pension

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


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The managers of funds offering private equity, private credit, nontraded real estate and other alternative assets say it isn’t fair that pension funds and university endowments have access to such funds while small investors don’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 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

Since the pension reforms failed, bondholders have been on notice that they might not be France’s senior creditors after all, as Stanford economist Hanno Lustig argues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

And in twenty- five years, we’d have a pension.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

"It's hard to tell young people we're not going to have the money for you because we're spending a lot on health and pensions," he acknowledged.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

“If we don’t do anything, there’s 15 billion more to spend on pensions next year,” Lescure said.

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

As inflation ate away at their modest government pensions, Elizebeth spent long hours going over their checkbooks, bank records, and tax forms.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

It is the reason why James Anderson was pensioned off in 2024.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025

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

“Maybe it’s time for the whole thing to be pensioned off and rethought.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2017

“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

With this eloquent plea, Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel last year won over reluctant Congressmen to his plan for pensioning off India's princes.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

No man probably ever gave away so much money in promoting charitable institutions or useful undertakings, and in pensioning, assisting, and supporting his numerous relations and dependants.

From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville




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