pension plan
Americannoun
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a systematic plan created and maintained, as by a corporation, to make regular payments of benefits to retired or disabled employees, either on a contributory or a noncontributory basis.
Etymology
Origin of pension plan
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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To avoid taxes, you should do a direct rollover — that way, the money goes straight from the pension plan to the IRA.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
It was a miss, and the adjusted figure excluded $825 million in charges, mainly due to pension plan changes.
From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026
However, access to a pension plan has fallen to less than 25% and continues to decline, Corebridge Financial reports.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025
The company said its earnings benefited from an unscheduled refund of contributions from its pension plan that lowered personnel costs and boosted its bottom line by about 50 million euros.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
We feel bound to hold that a pension plan thus imposed is in no proper sense a regulation of the activity of interstate transportation.
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel
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