Both Uses of
pension
in
Main Street
- Mr. Elder thundered his answer, while the others nodded, solemnly and in tune, like a shop-window of flexible toys, comic mandarins and judges and ducks and clowns, set quivering by a breeze from the open door: "All this profit-sharing and welfare work and insurance and old-age pension is simply poppycock.†
Chpt 4
- The company, Ezra explained to Carol, had no funds for giving pensions.†
Chpt 35 *
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