demi-pension 的定义
French.
- an arrangement whereby a guest or resident pays, usually at a fixed rate, for room, breakfast, and one other daily meal offered in a hotel or boardinghouse; half board.Compare modified American plan.
- an arrangement whereby a student takes the midday meal offered at a school.
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- Extra dry, for example, is actually sweeter than brut, which is drier than demi-sec, which is somewhat sweet.
- Young says she ultimately lost her health benefits and pension.
- He returned home a pauper without a pension and 50 years later, at 70, chronicled the travails of the War of Independence.
- But Raimondo ran a targeted, data-driven campaign that, like the pension reforms, was driven by the facts and not by emotion.
- Retirees there were already receiving pension checks half the size of what they had been promised.
- The governor of the fortress was provided with a safe residence in Egypt, and an annual pension of 75,000 piasters.
- The staff officer replied that a pension of four hundred francs would save them from want in their old age.
- A pension encourages earlier retirement from work, quickens promotion, and vitalises the whole service.
- They surround themselves with the atmosphere of the demi-monde and forget that a wrinkle is as fatal as a chaperon.
- Everybody in the pension was studying something; we avoided the American church and consulate and even the Baroness L.