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pension

noun/ˈpɛnʃən/

a regular payment made by the government to retired people

You can receive your pension when you retire or when you reach the eve of your 65th birthday.

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word origin — late Middle English (in the sense ‘payment, tax, regular sum paid to retain allegiance’): from Old French, from Latin pensio(n-) ‘payment’, from pendere ‘to pay’. The current verb sense dates from the mid 19th century