meagre pension
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmeagreandpension
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meagre
adjective
uk/ˈmiː.ɡər/us/ˈmiː.ɡɚ/
(of amounts or numbers) very small or ...
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pension
noun[C]
uk/ˈpen.ʃən/us/ˈpen.ʃən/
an amount of money paid regularly by the government or a private company to a person who does not work any more because they are too old or have ...
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(Definition ofmeagreandpensionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Old-age pensioners do not have to pay £34 out of ameagrepensionat one go.
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In a very short period of time he finds living costs in the country mounting and his alreadymeagrepensionappears trivial.
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It would augment theirmeagrepension.
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After all, this is ameagrepension.
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What is more, all those whose salaries are too low for them to be able to pay into a pension fund will be entitled only to a verymeagrepension.
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They are on ameagrepension.
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In 1986, he was found medically unfit to serve because of diabetes, and was discharged on ameagrepension.
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They are existing on meagre pensions and upon public assistance.
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That is the state into which the old-age pensioners have been driven because of their meagre pensions.
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It could be done by increasing their meagre pensions to the 1946 rate.
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Most of the old soldiers, sailors and airmen thought that their rather meagre pensions would be increased.
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These old people cannot possibly exist on their meagre pensions.
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Many of them had pensions which were pitifully small even by pre-war standards, and those meagre pensions have steadily dwindled.
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Many of them fear that they may well have to live on the meagre pensions which they get.
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I hope that he will be able to suggest means by which this most deserving body of men may have their meagre pensions increased.
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That cost comes out of their meagre pensions.
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I suspect that they are the older ones, unable to work to supplement their meagre pensions.
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Old people are still struggling to exist on meagre pensions.
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A captain or a sergeant who retired in the 1930s would today be old men and would find it extremely difficult to live on their meagre pensions.
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