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demi-pension

/duh-mee-pahn-syawn/US // də mi pɑ̃ˈsyɔ̃ //UK // French (dəmipɑ̃sjɔ̃) //

半养老金,半退休金,二级养老金,半养老保险

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.

Examples

  • 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.