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"PENSIONS" is a plural of: pension. |
Date "PENSIONS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1748. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Fixed sums paid regularly to individuals. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PENSIONSSynonym: Retirement pensions. (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: pensioning (laboreuropean union). |
Crosswords: PENSIONS |
| English words defined with "PENSIONS": Department of the Interior ♦ pension fund ♦ welfare state. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PENSIONS": Expenditures ♦ fringe benefits ♦ Legion of Honour ♦ Off-farm income, Other income ♦ pay-as-you-go system, provident fund ♦ section 32 buy-out plan ♦ transfer pension scheme ♦ unfunded system ♦ wage supplements. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PENSIONS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (boarding houses). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Un-civil pensions. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2027 | The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The German Government undertakes to bear the expense of all civil and military pensions which had been earned in Alsace. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | With generous pensions and payment offers, Ford hopes to make no forced redundancies as it did when it went to single-shift working. (references) | |
The benefits provided by the AFJPs include ordinary retirement, retirement due to disability, pensions due to death of the affiliate or the person receiving the benefits. (references) | ||
Children | Armenia | According to the Ministry of Social Welfare, approximately $7.4 million (400 million drams) was directed towards support for persons with disabilities which includes pensions, prostheses, and wheelchairs. (references) |
Mongolia | Government pensions for the disabled are approximately 40,000 tugrik ($40) per month. (references) | |
Turkmenistan | Pensions usually range between $10 to $30 per month ( 200,000 to 300,000 manats). (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | The Cabinet allocates funds in the national budget for payment of refugee pensions and small allowances for indigent refugees, plus transportation fare to a refugee center. (references) |
Mozambique | The demonstrators were protesting the Government's refusal to pay their pensions. (references) | |
Croatia | The Catholic Church receives direct subsidies, as well as state financing for some salaries and pensions for priests and nuns through the government-managed pension and health fund. (references) | |
Discrimination | South Africa | The act addresses discrimination in a broad context in the workplace, health care, education, services, pensions, and other socio-economic areas. (references) |
Economic History | Georgia | Monthly minimum pensions were increased to GEL 14 in November 1998 and remain at this level. (references) |
Italy | The key economic challenges facing Italy and the newly elected government are keeping the government deficit under control, reforming pensions system, continuing efforts to reduce the high level of government debt, reducing unemployment, addressing structural rigidities of the Italian market and improving public administration and the inadequate level of infrastructures. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tunisia | An individual must have an identity card to sign a lease, to buy or drive a car, to receive access to healthcare, bank accounts, and pensions, and even to join a sports club. (references) |
Hungary | Those found guilty were sentenced to short prison terms that subsequently were suspended, and had their pensions reduced. (references) | |
Chile | Survivors of the victims receive pensions, educational benefits, and other assistance. (references) | |
Minorities | Croatia | Without the recognition conferred by the law, citizens (almost exclusively ethnic Serbs) remained unable to resolve a wide range of problems including pensions, disability insurance, unemployment benefits, the recognition of births, deaths, and marriages, and even confirmation of time served in prison. (references) |
Iran | Thousands of Baha'is who were dismissed from government jobs in the early 1980's receive no unemployment benefits and have been required to repay the Government for salaries or pensions received from the first day of employment. (references) | |
Azerbaijan | Ethnic Armenians have complained of discrimination in employment and harassment at schools and workplaces and of the refusal of local government authorities to pay pensions. (references) | |
Political Economy | ROMANIA | In early 2001, the government concluded a Social Pact with national union confederation and employer associations, under which the unions agreed not to stage national strikes, in return for promises regarding wages, pensions and new labor legislation. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Pensions and other benefits also were paid only in part and often were delayed due to a lack of government revenues. (references) | |
UNITED KINGDOM | This higher government consumption and investment is expected to boost GDP growth in 2001, with increases in pensions spending, and changes to the working families tax credit. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | Our activities address the urgent humanitarian and health needs of the people of Ukraine by: 1) supporting the government in moving from universal housing and communal services subsidies to targeted social services; 2) providing humanitarian assistance and strengthening the ability of non-governmental organizations to deliver social services; 3) laying the foundation for a sustainable system of pensions and social insurance; 4) providing training and supplies to improve the quality of and access to reproductive health care and the screening for and treatment of breast cancer; 5) supporting health partnerships for the promotion of primary health care and exchange of information, training and personnel; 6) providing thyroid cancer screening and psycho-social interventions to child victims of the Chernobyl accident, while strengthening the Ukrainian government's ability to respond to health and environmental crises; and 7) providing technical assistance in addressing both the TB and the STI/HIV/AIDS epidemics. (references) |
Women | Kyrgyz Republic | Women make up the majority of pensioners who have felt the negative effects of the country's economic downturn, which has led to inflation and the erosion of pensions that often were paid late. (references) |
China | Lower retirement ages have the effect of reducing pensions, which generally are based on years worked. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Uzbekistan | Trade unions are described legally as organizations that defend the right to work and to protect jobs, and emphasis is placed on the unions' responsibility for "social protection" and social justice--especially unemployment compensation, pensions, and worker retraining. (references) |
Romania | The Government concluded a Social Pact early in the year with national union confederations and employer associations; in return for promises regarding wages, pensions, and new labor legislation, the unions agreed not to stage national strikes. (references) | |
Russia | Approximately 27 percent of the population have incomes below this official subsistence minimum; however, most workers receive several times the monthly minimum, and the minimum wage is essentially an accounting reference for calculating university stipends, pensions, civil service wages, and social benefits. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Such an amendment would add but little to the amount of pensions, and is called for by the sympathies of the people as well as by considerations of sound policy. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We will also take action to remedy inequities in pensions. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | From its beginning, Americans have supplemented Social Security with private pensions and savings. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "PENSIONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 92.00% of the time. "PENSIONS" is used about 1,810 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 92% | 1,665 | 5,016 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.78% | 141 | 26,682 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.17% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,810 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PENSIONS": pensions-committees, pensions-the. | |
Ending with "PENSIONS": occupational-pensions, terms-pensions. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PENSIONS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pensioner og renter, pensioner (pension, retirement annuities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pensionnetjes, pensioenen en renten, pensioenen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kansaneläkelaitos (National Pensions Office). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pensions et rentes, pensions. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Renten (pension, retirement annuities), Altersversorgung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συντάξεις (pension, retirement annuities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pensioni e rendite, pensioni (inns). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 叙賜 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じょし (arranging seats by seniority, foreward, girl, Ms., particle, postposition, preface, woman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ensionspay pensões. (various references) pensões. (various references) pensiones y rentas, pensiones. (various references) pensioner, pensionat (boarding house, boarding-house, lodging house, pension). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PENSIONS": suspensions. (additional references) | |
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"PENSIONS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pansio, penikos, Peniston, penshion, penshon, pensione, pensionne, pensoes, penson, pensoso, Pensynnu, pention, Penzini, penzione, Penzlin, ponsion, prednison. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PENSIONS" (pronounced pe"nshunz) |
| 7 | p e" n sh u n z | suspensions. |
| 6 | -e" n sh u n z | apprehensions, attentions, contentions, conventions, detentions, dimensions, extensions, inventions, mentions, pretensions. |
| 5 | -n sh u n z | expansions. |
| 4 | -sh u n z | abbreviations, abductions, aberrations, abortions, abstractions, academicians, accommodations, accreditations, accumulations, accusations, acquisitions, actions, adaptations, addictions, additions, administrations, admissions, admonitions, adoptions, affections, affiliations, affirmations, afflictions, aggressions, allegations, allocations, alterations, altercations, ambitions, ammunitions, amplifications, amputations, animations, annotations, anticipations, apparitions, appellations, applications, appropriations, approximations, arbitrations, aspirations, assassinations, assertions, associations, assumptions, attractions, auctions, auditions, authentications, authorizations, calculations, cancellations, capitalizations, captions, carnations, castrations, cautions, celebrations, certifications, characterizations, circulations, citations, civilizations, clarifications, classifications, clinicians, coalitions, collaborations, collections, combinations, commemorations, commissions, communications, compensations, competitions, compilations, completions, complexions, complications, compositions, compulsions, computations, concentrations, conceptions, concessions, concoctions, concussions, condemnations, conditions, confections, confessions, configurations, confirmations, confrontations, congratulations, congregations, conjugations, conjunctions, connections, connotations, consecrations, considerations, consolations, consolidations, constellations, constitutions, constrictions, constructions, consultations, contortions, contractions, contradictions, contraptions, contributions, conversations, convictions, convulsions, cooperations, corporations, corrections, correlations, corruptions, creations, crustaceans, cushions, dalmatians, decapitations, deceptions, declarations, decorations, deductions, defections, definitions, degradations, delegations, deletions, deliberations, demarcations, demonstrations, demotions, denationalizations, denominations, denunciations, depictions, deportations, depositions, depreciations, depredations, depressions, deprivations, descriptions, desecrations, desertions, designations, destinations, determinations, detonations, devaluations, deviations, dietitians, digressions, directions, discolorations, discussions, dislocations, dispositions, disruptions, dissections, distinctions, distortions, distractions, distributions, diversifications, donations, dramatizations, duplications, durations, editions, educations, egyptians, elections, electricians, electrocutions, elevations, eliminations, elocutions, emanations, emigrations, emissions, emotions, erections, eruptions, estimations, evacuations, evaluations, evictions, exacerbations, exactions, exaggerations, examinations, excavations, exceptions, exclamations, executions, exemptions, exertions, exhibitions, exhortations, expectations, expeditions, expirations, explanations, explorations, expositions, expressions, expropriations, expulsions, extractions, fabrications, factions, fashions, federations, fictions, flirtations, fluctuations, formations, formulations, fortifications, foundations, fractions, frictions, frustrations, functions, generalizations, generations, geriatricians, gradations, graduations, gyrations, hallucinations, hesitations, hospitalizations, humiliations, identifications, illustrations, imaginations, imitations, immunizations, impatiens, imperfections, implications, impressions, improvisations, inaugurations, incarnations, inclinations, incorporations, indications, indiscretions, infections, infestations, inflections, informations, infractions, inhibitions, injections, injunctions, innovations, inoculations, inscriptions, insinuations, inspections, inspirations, installations, institutions, instructions, integrations, interactions, interceptions, interconnections, interjections, intermissions, interpretations, interrogations, interruptions, intersections, intimations, introductions, inundations, investigations, invitations, irritations, jurisdictions, justifications, juxtapositions, lacerations, liberalizations, limitations, liquidations, litigations, locations, lotions, machinations, magicians, magnifications, malformations, malfunctions, manifestations, manipulations, martians, mathematicians, medications, meditations, migrations, ministrations, miscalculations, misconceptions, miscreations, misperceptions, misrepresentations, missions, mobilizations, modifications, motions, motivations, munitions, musicians, mutations, mutilations, nationalizations, nations, negotiations, nominations, notations, notifications, notions, objections, obligations, observations, obsessions, obstetricians, obstructions, occupations, oceans, omissions, operations, oppressions, opticians, options, orations, orchestrations, organizations, orientations, originations, oscillations, ovations, palpitations, participations, partitions, passions, patients, patricians, pediatricians, perceptions, perforations, permissions, permutations, perturbations, petitions, physicians, plantations, politicians, pontifications, populations, portions, positions, possessions, potions, precautions, preconceptions, preconditions, predictions, predilections, predispositions, preoccupations, preparations, prescriptions, presentations, presumptions, privations, privatizations, processions, proclamations, productions, professions, prognostications, prohibitions, projections, promotions, pronunciations, proportions, propositions, prosecutions, protections, protestations, provocations, publications, qualifications, quotations, ramifications, rationalizations, rations, reactions, realizations, recapitalizations, receptions, recessions, recitations, recollections, recommendations, reconciliations, reconstructions, recriminations, redemptions, reductions, reflections, registrations, regressions, regulations, rehabilitations, rejections, relations, relocations, remissions, renditions, renegotiations, renovations, reorganizations, reparations, repercussions, repetitions, repossessions, representations, repressions, reproductions, reputations, reservations, resignations, resolutions, restorations, restrictions, revaluations, revelations, reverberations, revocations, revolutions, rhetoricians, rotations, ruminations, sanctions, satisfactions, secretions, sections, selections, sensations, separations, sessions, simulations, situations, solicitations, solutions, specifications, speculations, stations, statisticians, sterilizations, stipulations, strangulations, subluxations, submissions, subscriptions, substitutions, summations, superstitions, suppositions, suspicions, syndications, tabulations, tacticians, technicians, telecommunications, temptations, terminations, theoreticians, traditions, transactions, transcriptions, transformations, transgressions, transitions, translations, transmissions, tribulations, tuitions, vacations, vaccinations, valuations, variations, vibrations, violations, visitations, vocations, workstations. |
| 3 | -u n z | abandons, abrasions, abstentions, accordions, aliens, allergens, allusions, amphibians, antigens, antihistamines, antitoxins, aprons, arcadians, arsons, artisans, aspens, aspersions, assassins, Avions, awakens, badmintons, balbriggans, barbarians, bargains, barons, barrens, basins, bastions, battalions, beacons, beckons, bedouins, billions, blackens, bourbons, brackens, brightens, broadens, bruins, bulletins, burdens, buttons, cabins, cannons, canons, cantons, canyons, captains, carbons, carcinogens, cardigans, cartons, catamarans, catkins, caymans, centenarians, champions, chaplains, charlatans, chickens, chieftains, citizens, civilians, collegians, collisions, comedians, Commons, companions, comparisons, conclusions, confusions, congresspersons, contrarians, contusions, conversions, cottons, cousins, cravens, curtains, custodians, Daltons, dandelions, deacons, decisions, deepens, delicatessens, delusions, demons, denizens, determines, Dickens, dioxins, disciplinarians, disciplines, diversions, divisions, Dobsons, doctrines, dolphins, dozens, dragons, dungeons, elevens, endorphins, engines, environs, envisions, eons, equations, estrogens, evasions, evens, examines, exclusions, excursions, explosions, falcons, famines, felons, firmans, fluorocarbons, fortunes, fountains, frightens, galleons, gallons, Gammons, gardens, gascons, germans, Gibbons, givens, globulins, gluttons, gorgons, Gowans, grabens, gremlins, gryphons, guardians, happens, hardens, hastens, havens, heavens, heightens, heroines, herons, historians, hooligans, horizons, humanitarians, humans, hydrocarbons, hydrogens, illusions, imagines, incisions, inclusions, incursions, infusions, intentions, interventions, intestines, intrusions, invasions, ions, jillions, Jordans, kindergartens, kitchens, kittens, leavens, legions, lemans, lemons, lengthens, lesbians, lesions, lessens, lessons, libertarians, librarians, lichens, likens, linens, lions, lippens, listens, loosens, lubricants, luncheons, maidens, mandarins, mansions, margins, Marlins, martens, masons, matrons, mavens, medallions, medicines, melons, metropolitans, mignons, millions, minions, misfortunes, mittens, Morgans, mountains, muffins, mullens, myrmidons, neurosurgeons, newspersons, nonwovens, occasions, omens, onions, opens, opinions, organs, orphans, ovens, paeans, pardons, parliamentarians, Parsons, partisans, pathogens, patrons, pavilions, pedestrians, pelicans, penguins, penicillins, peons, persons, persuasions, pigeons, Pipkins, pistons, plantains, plebeians, poisons, pollens, polyhedrons, porcelains, prisons, prostaglandins, protozoans, provisions, pumpkins, puritans, questions, quickens, ravens, reasons, rebellions, recisions, reckons, regimens, regions, religions, reopens, republicans, rescissions, reunions, revisions, ribbons, Robins, romans, ruins, saddens, salmons, samaritans, sapiens, scallions, scorpions, seasons, seminarians, sermons, sevens, shamans, sharpens, shenanigans, shortens, Siemens, siphons, sirens, skeletons, slackens, slogans, smoothens, snapdragons, softens, sovereigns, sovrans, specimens, spokespersons, squadrons, stallions, stiffens, straightens, strengthens, sturgeons, subdivisions, suburbans, suggestions, sultans, summons, surgeons, sweetens, talons, tamarins, televisions, tendons, tensions, theologians, thickens, threatens, tightens, titans, toboggans, tokens, totalitarians, toughens, toxins, transfusions, trillions, truncheons, turbans, unions, unisons, urchins, utopians, vegetarians, versions, veterans, veterinarians, villains, virgins, visions, vitamins, wagons, wardens, warrens, watermelons, weakens, weapons, widens, woolens, worsens, yaupons, zillions. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-n-o-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: pension, pinones, sonnies, spinose. | |
-2 letters: enosis, eosins, essoin, noesis, noises, opines, opsins, ossein, pennis, pinons, poises, ponies, posies, snipes, sonsie, spines. | |
-3 letters: eosin, neons, nines, noise, nones, noses, opens, opine, opsin, peins, penis, penni, peons, pesos, pines, pinon, pions, pisos, poise, pones, poses, posse, sines, sipes, snipe, snips, sones, spies, spine, spins. | |
-4 letters: eons. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-n-o-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: pensiones, phoniness, saponines. | |
+2 letters: expansions, nonpassive, pensioners, sapogenins, sponginess, suspension. | |
+3 letters: inspections, monopsonies, pensionless, pepsinogens, phoninesses, pointedness, posttension, prednisones, prehensions, pretensions, responsions, sphingosine, suspensions. | |
+4 letters: copingstones, dispensation, encompassing, expansionism, expansionist, hypotensions, nondescripts, nonpasserine, pensionaries, personations, plasminogens, posttensions, septentrions, sphingosines, sponginesses, supernations, trypsinogens, unresponsive. | |
+5 letters: antinepotisms, apprehensions, compensations, despondencies, dispensations, empoisonments, expansionisms, expansionists, hypertensions, imprisonments, incorruptness, interspersion, isoprenalines, mispronounces, nondispersive, nonexplosives, nonpermissive, nonpersistent, nonpossession, nonresponsive, nonspecialist, omnipresences, penuriousness, personalising, pointednesses, pointlessness, posttensioned, prednisolones, presentations, processioning, reinspections, reprehensions, spontaneities, steppingstone, superventions, unimpassioned. | |
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