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pension

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


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Unlike the four major professional sports in the U.S., wrestlers have no pension and no retiree health benefits.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

France is also straining to adapt generous health and pension systems as its population ages, driving up costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Overall, however, he is confident he will have enough to retire on at the end of his "30-40" year career and is determined to opt back in to his pension as soon as he can.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The government said it expects pension costs next year to reach €436 billion, equivalent to 14% of GDP.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“I got me a nice pension from the railroad. I was with them for forty-five years, you know. They gimme a beautiful gold pin w'hen I retired.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

In the three months to December last year, 11.5% of eligible 22 to 29-year-olds who recently started a job opted out of their pensions.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Kounalakis told The Times in May she would prioritize responsible management of state finances and investment in housing and infrastructure and protect public employee pensions through transparent oversight of the state’s investment portfolio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Burnham’s speech at the Labour conference also outlined changes to pensions and plans to strengthen control of water companies, build a national care service and create a public body to invest in the electricity grid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

But potential lower annual increases to pensions if the triple lock is changed would have knock-on effects, she added.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Like Hernan Cortes, who conquered Mexico, Pizarro was born into the lower fringes of the nobility and hoped by his exploits to earn titles, offices, and pensions from the Spanish crown.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

The following year, four years after the explosion, he was pensioned out of the army and started a university degree in psychology.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2021

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When Iowa sent a pension to Joseph Newt Finney, she joined no less than 26 other States, Alaska and Hawaii, in pensioning her aged.*

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

Peace had led to the pensioning of militia officers, or reducing to half-pay of the juniors.

From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Clement King Shorter




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