pension

[ˈpenʃn]

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.

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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.