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


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The savings and retirement firm’s recent pension risk transfer partnership helps increase RBC’s adjusted operating profit guidance by 2% on average through 2029, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

She pushed to include the WGA and to bolster Paramount’s commitment to the WGA’s health and pension fund.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

My gross pension is about one-third of my previous salary, but it’s still enough to cover my everyday expenses.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Some 69% of retirees in the UK have a private pension in addition to their state one, official figures show., external In the US 56% of pensioners, external have a private pension.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“Until I get my pension,” I explained, “I can’t afford a place to live. Can’t I pick up my pension here?”

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Yet scholars deem Baldwin to have displayed many admirable leadership qualities—magnanimity, political astuteness, trustworthiness—and he was successful by his own lights, having passed reforms in housing and pensions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Three men have been jailed over a multi-million pound tree-planting scam that cost nearly 3,000 investors their savings or pensions.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

By the time we get to the middle of the income distribution, reliance on Social Security falls to 46%, with income from pensions and retirement savings making a meaningful contribution.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

For many, it also meant giving up their shops, their businesses, their pensions, and their life savings.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

It’s also an issue in the United States, although a lot of independent groups and regulators put forth measures to find homes for retired and pensioned horses.

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

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

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 the latter year Dom Pedro suppressed monkeries and nunneries by disallowing masses, and by pensioning the holy tenantry with 9 dols. per mensem, afterwards, reduced to 5 dols.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton




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