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a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working- Between Social Security and a good company pension, my grandparents are reasonably comfortable.
- Here, as at Paris, Becky was a boarding-house queen, and ruled in select pensions.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- He asked neither pension nor retaining fee, but, if they deemed him worthy, would they write him a testimonial?Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
- The company, Ezra explained to Carol, had no funds for giving pensions.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
- Let's assume the story you gave me is true, though I'd bet my pension a good deal of it is either fabricated or omitted.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- He knew Vevay well, and as soon as the boat touched the little quay, he hurried along the shore to La Tour, where the Carrols were living en pension.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- I got a good pension that I earned and a few years left to bask in the sunshine down here.David Baldacci -- Zero Day
- As examples: We should bring more citizens under the coverage of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- The Four Freedoms
- I will pension you for life.Henry James -- The American
- He was made private astronomer to the king and received a pension.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- Zero pensions, zero savings, zero stocks and bonds.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- So I sit at my ease, as befits a mahout,—not a mere hunter,—a mahout, I say, and a man who gets a pension at the end of his service.Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
- Have you gone into the insurance fund, the pension fund, the building society, the various applications of co-operation!George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
- I wrote to her I was coming, and she answered that she would engage a room for me at a pension.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- Liberal old-age pensions had been agreed upon.George Orwell -- Animal Farm
- These folks would finish their commitment to the armed services and have several years in on a federal pension, so they'd end up working for the BOP.Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
- So take my watch, my wallet, my pension fund.Stephen King -- The Shining
- Give us medals where they think we were right, take away our pensions and put us in jail where they decide we were wrong.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
- At first I wondered why these obvious candidates for physical retirement and full-pay pension didn't take it and go home.Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
- He always said it was the single most important thing an officer could do if he wanted to live long enough to draw a pension.Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
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