retire on a pension

  • 21pension plan — noun a plan for setting aside money to be spent after retirement • Syn: ↑pension account, ↑retirement plan, ↑retirement savings plan, ↑retirement savings account, ↑retirement account, ↑retirement program • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 22Pension bomb — A pension bomb or pension time bomb is a phenomenon where demographic and other changes (typically longevity, population peaks and troughs, and long term adverse changes in the rate of return on investments, cost of living or taxation) mean that… …

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  • 23retire — 01. My parents are planning to travel across the U.S. in their motorhome next year after my dad [retires]. 02. He [retired] after 45 years with the same company. 03. My parents are really looking forward to their [retirement], and have all kinds… …

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  • 24pension fund — A fund set up to pay the pension benefits of a company s workers after retirement. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary A fund set up by a company or government to invest the pension contributions of members and employees. These are then paid out when… …

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  • 25retire — /rɪ taɪə/ verb 1. to stop work and take a pension ● She retired with a £15,000 pension. ● The founder of the company retired at the age of 85. ● The shop is owned by a retired policeman. 2. to make an employee stop work and take a pension ● They… …

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  • 26Pension Shortfall — A situation in which a company offering employees a defined benefit plan does not have enough money set aside to meet the pension obligations to employees who will be retired in the future. With a defined benefit plan, the employer bears the risk …

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  • 27pension off — Synonyms and related words: abdicate, aid, assist, be pensioned, be superannuated, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, deconsecrate, defrock, degrade, demit, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, dethrone, disbar, discharge, discrown,… …

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  • 28retire — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abdicate, abscond, amortize, avoid the limelight, back down, back out, be pensioned, be superannuated, beat a retreat, bed, bed down, blush unseen, boot, bounce, bow out, bowl, break, bump, bust, can, cashier …

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  • 29pension — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin pension , pensio, from pendere to pay more at pendant Date: 14th century 1. a fixed sum paid regularly to a person: a. archaic wage b. a gratuity granted (as by a government) as a… …

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  • 30Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation - PBGC — A non profit corporation that functions under the jurisdiction of the Department of Labor and that guarantees the payment of certain pension benefits under defined benefit plans that have been terminated with insufficient money to pay benefits.… …

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