Read full poem →He keeps in Pay, and buys their Votes ;
Here with a Place, there with a Pension.
Dictionary Entry
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.
In a Sentence
“Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
plan pensionfunds pensionplans pensionfund pension. pensionbenefits pensionpension agepension private
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Poetry examples for “pension”
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Read full poem →Rear Admiral the next fleet, and ^500
per annum pension, from the Revenue
farmers ; lately ^3,000 in money.
Read full poem →moved to Drury-Lane. Hart performed no more, hut
retired on a pension ; and Mohun soon afterwards died.
The remainder of the troop were incorporated with the
Read full poem →United States, authorized by law, including debts ineurred
for payment of pension and bounties for services in suppress-
ing insurrection or rebellion. shall not be questioned. But
Read full poem →1678, All for Love, Limberham.
1679. OEdipus. Additional Pension
of One Hundred
Read full poem →Oh never let their lays his name forget!
The pension of a prince's praise is great.
Live then, thou great encourager of arts,
Read full poem →maison habitée autrefois par le Vicaire-Général, et elle lui assigna une
pension de deux cent écus d'or tant qu'il séjournerait à Genève. Il fut
admis dans le Conseil des Deux-Cent en 1537.
Read full poem →Berne," he returned to Geneva, and was made a member of the Council of
the State, and awarded a house and a pension of two hundred crowns a
year. A long life was before him, which he proceeded to spend in
Read full poem →He drew a pension of $240 a year. His widow also drew a
pension during her life.
Read full poem →Wheatley’s sons served in the Revolutionary army. The Revo-
lutionary Rolls, State papers of several states, and the pension
and war departments at Washington, have aided in furnishing