Pension State ˈpenʃn Retirement Company Noun Bre Receive

• to receive an old-age/a retirement pension
• a disability/widow’s pension
• a state pension
• to live on a pension

pension

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
• to receive an old-age/a retirement pension
• a disability/widow’s pension
• a state pension
• to live on a pension
• to take out a personal/private pension
• a pension fund

Extra Examples

• Employees enjoy generous retirement pensions.
• He draws his pension at the post office.
• He is now retired and on a pension.
• Only half of all women qualify for a full state pension.
• She lives on her pension and her savings.
• State pensions are funded by taxpayers.
• The state pension age for men and women will be 65.
• You will have to find out whether or not you qualify for a pension.
• the company pension fund
• workers who have lost all their pensions as a result of company insolvencies

Word Origin

• late Middle English (in the sense ‘payment, tax, regular sum paid to retain allegiance’): from Old French, from Latin pensio(n-) ‘payment’, from pendere ‘to pay’. The current verb sense dates from the mid 19th cent.