Both Uses
pension
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The Phantom of the Opera
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- [3] The Persian might easily have admitted that Erik's fate also interested himself, for he was well aware that, if the government of Teheran had learned that Erik was still alive, it would have been all up with the modest pension of the erstwhile daroga†
Chpt 21pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
- As a member of the Royal House, however, he continued to receive a monthly pension of a few hundred francs from the Persian treasury; and on this he came to live in Paris.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(pension) a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working -- typically during retirement
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)