Both Uses of
pension
in
The Idiot
- Your mother says herself that she was left in the direst poverty, and would have died of starvation had it not been for Pavlicheff, who generously allowed her a yearly pension of six hundred roubles.†
Chpt 2.9 *
- This lady posed as the patroness of literary people, and she certainly had succeeded in obtaining pensions for a few of them, thanks to her influence with those in authority on such matters.†
Chpt 4.6
Definition:
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(pension) a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working -- typically during retirement