how to pronounce pension

/ˈpɛn.ʃən/

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pension is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of pension in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… I've got like the pension my parents set …”

meaning of pension

A pension is a regular payment made by an employer to an employee in return for past service.

pension frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word pension occurs in english on average 44.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics pension can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that pension can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;