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was pensioning

  • past progressive
    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..

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If that meant that the company was pensioning him off, Mr. Pratt must have had his tongue in his cheek.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this very time Spain was pensioning men in high station there, including General Wilkinson, commanding our force at New Orleans.

From History of the United States, Volume 2 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews