All 4 Uses of
pension
in
Middlemarch
- He is very good to his poor relations: pensions several of the women, and is educating a young fellow at a good deal of expense.†
Chpt 1 *
- Sometimes, if you wanted to get a reform, your only way would be to pension off the good fellows whom everybody is fond of, and put them out of the question.†
Chpt 2
- I am not in a position to express my feeling toward Mr. Casaubon: it would be at best a pensioner's eulogy."†
Chpt 2
- I must not at least sink into the degradation of being pensioned for work that I never achieved.†
Chpt 8
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