old age pension

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noun

a former name for the state retirement pension

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Derived forms of old age pension

old age pensioner, noun

Words nearby old age pension

Olbers' paradox, Olcott, old, old Adam, old age, old age pension, old as Adam, Old Bailey, Old Believer, Old Bill, old bird

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How to use old age pension in a sentence

However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.
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In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
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So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
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It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.
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To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
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Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
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Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.
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His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
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The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
Among the Sioux|R. J. Creswell
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
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