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pension

pen·sion

pension

 
 
pronunciation:
pen shn
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part of speech: noun
definition: money paid at regular times by a former employer to a person who has retired, or by the government to a person who is not able to work.
Grandmother gets a monthly pension of one thousand dollars.
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derivations: pensionable (adj.), pensionless (adj.)
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