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pensions

  • plural
    of 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..
  • present tense form
    of pension (3rd person singular).
    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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Blackstone is also tapping in to Britain’s booming pensions market indirectly through a Bermudan reinsurer it provides with private-credit investments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

For a half-century, Congress has been offering middle- and working-class Americans options for tax-advantaged individual retirement savings, largely to compensate for the disappearance of traditional pensions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Jemma Slingo, pensions and investment specialist at investment firm Fidelity International, says female investors "appear more likely to connect investing with real-life goals, from building emergency savings to looking after children."

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

For every dollar that a teacher earns in compensation, the district and state pay 30 cents toward his pensions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

The President awarded the three detectives the People’s Medal and gave them lifelong pensions.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer