Both Uses of
pension
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- Mr. Elder thundered his answer, while the others nodded, solemnly and in tune, like a shop-window of flexible toys, comic mandarins and judges and ducks and clowns, set quivering by a breeze from the open door: "All this profit-sharing and welfare work and insurance and old-age pension is simply poppycock.†
Chpt 4pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
- The company, Ezra explained to Carol, had no funds for giving pensions.†
Chpt 35 *pensions = regular payments intended to people to have an income without working
Definition:
a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working -- typically during retirement