pension off
Britishverb
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to cause to retire from a post and pay a pension to
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to discard, because old and worn
to pension off submarines
Example Sentences
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Couldn't the Times pension off Friedman and use his space on the op-ed page to showcase some new thinkers?
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2017
Once again Arsenal's deficiencies in the area of the holding midfield player, evident since the unwise decision to pension off Gilberto Silva, were exposed.
From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2010
Two important measures he did sign: the Farm Bankruptcy Act and the Railroad Retirement Act, which, in future, will cost the railroads some $60,000,000 per year to pension off their 65-year-oldsters.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would pension off, at $200 per month, everyone who had reached the age of 60.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the figures supplied by Mr. Wade, I see, therefore, that we have sufficient to pension off these two hundred and ninety-two men and their families—giving each man one hundred and twenty pounds a year.
From Roden's Corner by Merriman, Henry Seton
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