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pensionable

  • a word derived from pension.
    pension
    noun
    a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc..

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The union said that when compounded, the offer works out at 15%, is backdated, pensionable and includes drivers who retired or left the industry during the dispute.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

A temporary measure allowing people to retire when they are 64 expires at the end of the year, with the pensionable age rising to 67 on Jan. 1.

From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2022

Born long ago, pop is now of pensionable age.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2018

“To my mind,” said McGillivray, “one full-time, permanent, pensionable job in this village will be a fantastic improvement.”

From The Verge ● Jan. 16, 2018

Everyone says these are good jobs, steady and pensionable and respectable, and if you get a job like this you never have to worry again in your whole life, so you don’t.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt