All 4 Uses of
pension
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- He'd left for Europe a few weeks later, calling her now and then from rustic pensions or tiny hotels by the sea.†
p. 325.4 *pensions = regular payments intended to people to have an income without working
- Tonight she would meet him at their pension by the river.†
p. 328.6pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
- She thought of Frederic again, perhaps already back in their pension, his tie falling across the back of a chair.†
p. 335.2
- She walked across cobblestones to the pension, painted pale yellow and faintly luminous, its window boxes spilling flowers.†
p. 335.9
Definition:
a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working -- typically during retirement