plural pensions
plural pensions
Learner's definition of PENSION
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: an amount of money that a company or the government pays to a person who is old or sick and no longer works养老金；退休金；抚恤金 -
Her pension arrives in the mail every month.她每个月都会收到寄来的养老金。
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collect/receive a pension征收/领取养老金
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retired people living on/off their pensions依靠养老金生活的退休人员
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a job with pension benefits [=a job that pays a pension after a number of years of employment]提供退休津贴的工作
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a pension fund [=money that a company invests in order to earn money to pay pensions]养老基金
2 pension /ˈpɛnʃən/ verb
pensions; pensioned; pensioning
pensions; pensioned; pensioning
Learner's definition of PENSION
pension off
[phrasal verb] pension (someone) off or pension off (someone) chiefly British
: to allow or force (an employee) to leave a job and accept a pension发养老金使退休；发养老金使离职