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Definition
a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
- Liberal old-age pensions had been agreed upon.p. 112.1
- It now appeared that Snowball was not, after all, hiding on Pinchfield Farm, and in fact had never been there in his life: he was living — in considerable luxury, so it was said — at Foxwood, and had in reality been a pensioner of Pilkington for years past.p. 99.9
- As yet no animal had actually retired on pension, but of late the subject had been discussed more and more.p. 112.2
- For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays.p. 112.4
- He did not care what happened so long as a good store of stone was accumulated before he went on pension.p. 119.2
There are no more uses of "pension" in Animal Farm.
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