All 3 Uses of
pension
in
Gulliver's Travels
- The pension from each family for the education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor's officers.†
Chpt 1 *pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
- The meaner families who have children at these nurseries, are obliged, besides their annual pension, which is as low as possible, to return to the steward of the nursery a small monthly share of their gettings, to be a portion for the child; and therefore all parents are limited in their expenses by the law.†
Chpt 1
- How it came to pass, that people were so violently bent upon getting into this assembly, which I allowed to be a great trouble and expense, often to the ruin of their families, without any salary or pension?†
Chpt 2
Definition:
a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working -- typically during retirement