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Between Social Security and a good company pension, my grandparents are reasonably comfortable.pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
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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. (source)pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income after retiring
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Papaw had retired only a few years earlier, owned stock in Armco, and had a lucrative pension.† (source)pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
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Every year, he withdraws the pension and donates it to the needy.† (source)
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There was even a case of a man drawing a teacher's pension when he had never taught a day in his life.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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I lost my job, my pension.† (source)pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
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Give us medals where they think we were right, take away our pensions and put us in jail where they decide we were wrong.† (source)pensions = regular payments intended to people to have an income without working
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He may have had a temper, but he was a reasonably harmless old pensioner.† (source)pensioner = someone who gets a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
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He subscribed much too much to things connected with his mess, he pensioned off his father's servants, old or new, much too generously.† (source)
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Everyone says these are good jobs, steady and pensionable and respectable, and if you get a job like this you never have to worry again in your whole life, so you don't.† (source)pensionable = able to qualify for regular payments that permit having an income without workingstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" in pensionable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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Tim is getting old, and Tim has been a faithful servant, brother Ned; and I don't think pensioning Tim's mother and sister, and buying a little tomb for the family when his poor brother died, was a sufficient recompense for his faithful services.'† (source)
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Reenie had the pension, but not much else, and she was letting out a room in her tiny house; also she was still working at Betty's Luncheonette, although she said her back was killing her.† (source)pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
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She had to provide for us, and she was helping out her parents, who were living off two small pensions and their small monthly Social Security check.† (source)pensions = regular payments intended to people to have an income without working
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And the metal-detecting pensioner who unearthed the can and, after a careful inspection, dropped it where he had found it.† (source)pensioner = someone who gets a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
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He had a fondness for me, would have pensioned me with acres of my own, a house, a wife that other men admired and courted; all gifts good-hearted kings bestow for service, for a life work the bounty of god has prospered —for it does prosper here, this work I do.† (source)
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