demi-pension

[ duh-mee-pahn-syawn ]

/ də mi pɑ̃ˈsyɔ̃ /

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noun French.

an arrangement whereby a guest or resident pays, usually at a fixed rate, for room, breakfast, and one other daily meal offered in a hotel or boardinghouse; half board.Compare modified American plan.

an arrangement whereby a student takes the midday meal offered at a school.

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Words nearby demi-pension

demimonde, demineralize, demineralizer, de minimis, de-mining, demi-pension, demipique, demi-plié, demi-pointe, demiquaver, Demirel

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How to use demi-pension in a sentence

Extra dry, for example, is actually sweeter than brut, which is drier than demi-sec, which is somewhat sweet.
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Young says she ultimately lost her health benefits and pension.
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He returned home a pauper without a pension and 50 years later, at 70, chronicled the travails of the War of Independence.
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But Raimondo ran a targeted, data-driven campaign that, like the pension reforms, was driven by the facts and not by emotion.
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Retirees there were already receiving pension checks half the size of what they had been promised.
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The governor of the fortress was provided with a safe residence in Egypt, and an annual pension of 75,000 piasters.
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The staff officer replied that a pension of four hundred francs would save them from want in their old age.
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A pension encourages earlier retirement from work, quickens promotion, and vitalises the whole service.
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They surround themselves with the atmosphere of the demi-monde and forget that a wrinkle is as fatal as a chaperon.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Everybody in the pension was studying something; we avoided the American church and consulate and even the Baroness L.
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British Dictionary definitions for demi-pension

demi-pension

/ French (dəmipɑ̃sjɔ̃) /

noun

another name for half board

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