pension

Definition:
1. An amount of money paid regularly by a government or company to somebody who is considered to be too old or too ill/sick to work.
2. A regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow them to subsist without working.
3. Grant a pension to.

Use 'pension' in a sentence:

• 1. There is, to date, only the flimsiest of publicly-funded health care and pension systems, which increases incentives for individuals to save while they are working.
• 2. There seems to be no way to spread out the tax or roll over the cash into another pension plan.
• 3. Since then he has been drawing a pension.
• 4. The firm granted him a pension.
• 5. New stakeholder pensions will aim to give all workers a retirement pension they can live on.
• 6. One old lady told them, she's just been to the post office to draw her pension, when he called.
• 7. If you should be fired, your health and pension benefits will not be automatically cut off.
• 8. I was sent a cheque and advised that no further pension was due.
• 9. With all these different pensions, you're going to have a job to keep track.
• 10. Pension payments will be cut.
• 11. He was offered a generous pension provided he left without a fuss.
• 12. The assets that the Norwegian Government owns is about two-thirds oil and one-third government pension fund assets.
• 13. Pensions should be increased annually in line with earnings or prices, whichever is the higher.
• 14. Minimum pensions and wages are to be indexed to inflation.
• 15. Many successful women do not want to be pensioned off at 60.
• 16. The pension issue was not at the forefront of his mind in the spring of 1985.
• 17. Facing increasing opposition to this proposal, the prime minister said on December 5 that working more years would no longer be a condition for reforming the special pension schemes.
• 18. It was a question of making sure certain needs were addressed, notably in the pensions area.
• 19. The government must not use this initiative as a means of resolving the pension problem through the back door.
• 20. The state pension is nowhere near enough.
• 21. Part of this remaining third is received by workers who are shareholders, pension beneficiaries, and the like.
• 22. You need feel no care for the coming tomorrow: when you are old, you receive a pension.
• 23. One of the most important changes concerns the investment of pension contributions.
• 24. Employees can contract out of their employer's occupational pension scheme.
• 25. She had just collected her pension from the post office.
• 26. He did have pension money coming to him when the factory shut down.
• 27. He is moving ever closer to drawing his pension.
• 28. He was pensioned off and his job given to a younger man.
• 29. I would have been much wiser to start my own pension plan when I was younger.
• 30. One old lady told them, she's just been to the post office to draw her pension, when he called, she said he must follow her home.
• 31. Pensions are paid by the state on a pay-as-you-go basis.
• 32. The basic retirement pension will go up by £ 7.95 a week.
• 33. Employees may opt out of the company's pension plan.
• 34. They argue that governments should persuade us into making better decisions—such as saving more in our pension plans—by changing the default options.
• 35. Many employees contracted out of the pension plan.
• 36. Pensions are linked to inflation, whereas they should be linked to the cost of living.
• 37. Indeed, Johnson was in 1762 awarded a pension by the Crown—a subtle form of sponsorship, tantamount to state patronage.
• 38. Size of pension depends partly on length of service with the company.
• 39. The trustees of your pension fund decide which fund manager will invest some or all of your future income.
• 40. The pension funds are administered by commercial banks.
• 41. Understandably, there are concerns about what this means for public finances given the associated health and pension challenges.
• 42. She's got nothing beyond her state pension.
• 43. Mr King asked if it had ever occurred to her to make provision for her own pension.
• 44. You will be entitled to your pension when you reach 65.
• 45. She went to the post office to draw her pension.
• 46. His company has the best pension scheme in the industry.
• 47. It also challenges the labor force supply and the pension system.
• 48. Firstly, they must make certain that their pension needs are adequately catered for.
• 49. Your contributions will affect your pension entitlements.
• 50. The main beneficiaries of pension equality so far have been men.