personal pension

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noun

a private pension scheme in which an individual contributes part of his or her salary to a financial institution, which invests it so that a lump sum is available on retirement; this is then used to purchase an annuity

a pension derived from such a scheme

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The email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims.
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And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”
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Michael Steinbrick, a personal trainer with New York Sports Clubs, says he can always spot a newbie.
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Marrying another Jew was not just a personal simcha (joy), but one for the community.
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It was hard not to take it as a sign, a personal comment on my own Jewish dating failings.
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The governor of the fortress was provided with a safe residence in Egypt, and an annual pension of 75,000 piasters.
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The feeling for the tiny things probably has in it the warmth of a young personal sympathy.
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Make a personal appeal to your men and Godley's to make a supreme effort to hold their ground.
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The same two impulses are said to lie at the root of the elaborate art of personal adornment developed by savages.
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One of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.
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