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How to pronounce “pension”
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Pronunciation guide for pension
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of pension with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Why Work Won’t Love You Back (and That’s OK) (w/ Sarah Jaffe)
a pension at the end of his career and
- Definition summary
- (finance) 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. [from 16th c.]
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How to pronounce pension
Why Work Won’t Love You Back (and That’s OK) (w/ Sarah Jaffe)
a pension at the end of his career and
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “pension”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (finance) 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. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) A wage or fee. [14th–19th c.]
- (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax. [14th–17th c.]
- A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
- (now historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar. [from 16th c.]
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To grant a pension to.
- (transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
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