Word Finder - pension

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An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes.

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Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.

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A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.

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A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not (John Irving).

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A wage or fee.

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A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.

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A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.

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A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.

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A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

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To grant a pension to.

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To force (someone) to retire on a pension.

We had full medical insurance and a pension program.

Twelve hundred francs' pension for life.

After the death of his wife (1588) he went to Spain, where on the recommendation of the duke of Feria he received a pension from the king.

They had collared a sus­pect in their search for the pension check thief.

Voters, meanwhile, are hoping the upcoming presidential elections will spell an end to the economic downturn and their pension woes.

In the succeeding autumn he returned to England, where his loyalism was rewarded by a government pension.

Fred O'Connor, at 74, had long since finished his working career, a calico collection of jobs which changed with the telling, none of which gave him a pension.

He wrote an account of this three years' journey, for which he was rewarded by Suleiman with an office and a pension.

The king made him a knight and gave him a pension.

In 1905 the maximum pension was raised to £26 a year.

The last gained him the friendship of the Marchesa di Barolo, the reformer of the Turin prisons, and in 1834 he accepted from her a yearly pension of 1200 francs.

Parliament also passed a measure granting ex-President Steyn a pension of £I 000 a year and ex-President Reitz a pension of X500.

This meant the certainty of a pension.

His own caprices interposed some delay in the conferring of a pension which George III.

The discrepancy between the fees paid by patients and the salaries received by nurses, especially in London, has occasionally excited unfavourable comment, but it is to be remembered that the nurses are maintained when out of work or ill, and have other advantages; many institutions either provide pensions or assist the members of their staff to join the Royal National Pension Fund.

Most of the German institutes have pension funds.

The bishop consented and promised a small pension; and in August 1495 Erasmus entered the "domus pauperum" of the college of Montaigu, which was then under the somewhat rigid rule of the reformer Jan Standonck.

The faithful Batt had sought a pension for him from his own patroness, Anne of Borsselen, the Lady of Veere, who resided at the castle of Tournehem near Calais, and whose son Batt was now teaching.

But as nothing promised at once, Erasmus accepted Mountjoy's offer, and thus a tie was formed which led Mountjoy then or a few years later to grant him a pension of £20 for life.

The archduke Ferdinand offered a pension of 400 florins, if he would only come to reside at Vienna.

As a subject of the emperor, and attached to his court by a pension, it would have been convenient to him to have fixed his residence in Louvain.

He also established large pension funds - in 1 9 01 for his former employes at Homestead, and in 1905 for American college professors.

She received from parliament a grant of 30,000 a year in compensation for the loss of her dower-lands, and the king added a similar sum as a pension from himself.

His loyalty to King George (son of Ernst August) would not permit him to take the oath of allegiance to the victorious king of Prussia, and he was therefore placed on the retired list, though with the full amount of his salary as pension.

At the same time the viceroy wisely came to an agreement with Sayri Tupac, the son and successor of the Inca Manco, and granted him a pension.

Later he went to the court of the Hamdanid Saif addaula, from whom he received a warm welcome and a small pension.

The Aga Khan reciprocated the British commander's confidence and friendship by giving repeated proofs of his devotion and attachment to the British government, and when he finally settled down in India, his position as the leader of the large Ismailiah section of Mahommedan British subjects was recognized by the government, and the title of His Highness was conferred on him, with a large pension.

Defoe says he received no pension, but his subsequent fidelity was at all events indirectly rewarded; moreover, Harley's moderation in a time of the extremest party-insanity was no little recommendation to Defoe.

In April 1877 public attention was called to the distress of three maiden ladies, directly descended from Defoe, and bearing his name; and a crown pension of X75 a year was bestowed on each of them.

In 1845 a Britton Club was formed, and a sum of £1000 was subscribed and given to Britton, who was subsequently granted a civil list pension by Disraeli, then chancellor of the exchequer.

For these various services he received until 1800 a substantial pension from the Spanish authorities, being officially known in their correspondence as "Number Thirteen."

Upon Wayne's death in 1796, Wilkinson became general in command of the regular army, retaining his rank as brigadier and likewise his Spanish pension.

He was then declared lieutenant-general of the forces, and, in addition to his pay as colonel, had a pension settled on him.

In 1661 he was created Lord Newark, and received a pension of £50o per annum.

Escaping by way of Strassburg he found an asylum in England, where he was made a prebendary of Canterbury, received a pension from Edward VI.'s privy purse, and composed his chief work, A Trajedy or Dialogue of the unjust usurped Primacy of the Bishop of Rome (1549) This remarkable performance, originally written in Latin, is extant only in the translation of John Ponet, bishop of Winchester, a splendid specimen of nervous English.

This he had to resign on the Restoration, but was rewarded with a small pension, which was continued to his widow after his death.

For the former, a strong opponent of his administration, he procured a pension of boo a year.

On hearing of this, Henry, although he had sworn to observe this will, had himself released from his oath by the pope, and hurriedly marched against his brother, from whom in the beginning of 1156 he succeeded in taking Chinon and Mirebeau; and in July he forced Geoffrey to give up even his three fortresses in return for an annual pension.

In 1871 she obtained a civil-list pension of £roo in recognition of her merits.

At the dissolution he surrendered his priory without compunction to the crown, and received a liberal pension.

President Cleveland made large use of the veto power upon bills passed by Congress, vetoing or " pocketing " during his first term 413 bills, more than two-thirds of which were private pension bills.

The most important bill vetoed was the Dependent Pension Bill, a measure of extreme profligacy, opening the door, by the vagueness of its terms, to enormous frauds upon the treasury.

At the same time expenditures were largely increased by liberal pension legislation, and the government's purchase of silver bullion almost doubled by the provisions of the new Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890.

The Curia, following its accustomed policy, rewarded his zeal with a pension of 50 gulden.

Zwingli prevailed on the council to forbid his entrance into Zurich; and even then the pope argued that, so long as the preacher was still receiving a papal pension, he could not be a formidable adversary, and he gave him a further sop in the form of an acolyte chaplaincy.

As a senator he consistently opposed the increasing monarchism of Napoleon, who, however, gave him in 1809 a pension and commissioned him to write a work on fortification for the school of Metz.

Nurses are eligible for a pension after 10 years' service, the amount increasing up to the age of 55 when retirement is compulsory.

In 1850 he resigned his headship of the Teachers' Seminary, and was awarded a pension.

In August 1670 he was again in Paris, and Arlington proposed that he should receive a pension from Louis; Charles II.

He accepted a pension from the French emperor and spent the rest of his life between his wife and Godoy.