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  • Every year, he withdraws the pension and donates it to the needy.†  (source)
  • There was even a case of a man drawing a teacher's pension when he had never taught a day in his life.†  (source)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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 working
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in pensionable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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