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PRONUNCIATION OF WIDOW'S PENSION

widow's pension  [ˈwɪdəʊz ˈpɛnʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WIDOW'S PENSION

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Widow's pension is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WIDOW'S PENSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Widow's pension

A widow's pension is a payment from the government of a country to a person whose spouse has died. Generally, such payments are made to a widow whose late spouse has satisfied the country's requirements, including contribution, cohabitation, and length of marriage.

Definition of widow's pension in the English dictionary

The definition of widow's pension in the dictionary is a weekly payment made to a widow.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WIDOW'S PENSION


ascension
əˈsɛnʃən
attention
əˈtɛnʃən
comprehension
ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnʃən
contention
kənˈtɛnʃən
convention
kənˈvɛnʃən
declension
dɪˈklɛnʃən
detention
dɪˈtɛnʃən
dimension
dɪˈmɛnʃən
extension
ɪkˈstɛnʃən
hypertension
ˌhaɪpəˈtɛnʃən
intention
ɪnˈtɛnʃən
intervention
ˌɪntəˈvɛnʃən
invention
ɪnˈvɛnʃən
mention
ˈmɛnʃən
pension
ˈpɛnʃən
prevention
prɪˈvɛnʃən
propension
prəˈpɛnʃən
retention
rɪˈtɛnʃən
suspension
səˈspɛnʃən
tension
ˈtɛnʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WIDOW'S PENSION

widgie
widish
Widnes
widow
widow bird
widow woman
widow´s benefit
widow´s cruse
widow´s mite
widow´s peak
widow´s walk
widow´s weeds
widowed
widower
widowerhood
widowhood
widowman
width
widthway
widthways

WORDS THAT END LIKE WIDOW'S PENSION

air suspension
apprehension
coefficient of expansion
commission
disability pension
en pension
Executive Mansion
expansion
file extension
hair extension
hyperextension
hypotension
incomprehension
independent suspension
low-tension
mansion
pretension
reading comprehension
retirement pension
surface tension
thermal expansion

Synonyms and antonyms of widow's pension in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «widow's pension» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WIDOW'S PENSION

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The translations of widow's pension from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «widow's pension» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

寡妇抚恤金
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pensión de viudedad
570 millions of speakers

English

widow´s pension
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विधवा की पेंशन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معاش الأرملة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пенсия вдовы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pensão de viúva
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিধবা এর পেনশন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la pension de veuve
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pencen balu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Witwenrente
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

寡婦年金
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

과부의 연금
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pensiun randha
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lương hưu góa phụ của
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விதவையின் ஓய்வூதியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विधवा पेन्शन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dul aylığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pensione di vedova
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

renty wdowiej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пенсія вдови
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pensie de urmaș
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σύνταξη χηρείας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

weduwee pensioen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

änkepension
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

enkepensjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of widow's pension

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WIDOW'S PENSION»

The term «widow's pension» is normally little used and occupies the 124.486 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WIDOW'S PENSION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about widow's pension

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WIDOW'S PENSION»

Discover the use of widow's pension in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to widow's pension and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom
In the public sector this usually results, as a minimum, in a widow's pension of half the amount the husband would have received had he retired due to ill health, and then only after a qualifying period of five years: for example, the civil-service,  ...
David Blake, 1995
2
Social Protection in the Candidate Countries: Country ...
Country Studies Cyprus, Malta, Turkey. The widow's pension The widow's pension is payable to the widow, and under certain conditions to the widower, of a person who on his/her death either (i) satisfied the eligihility conditions for old age ...
‎2003
3
International Employment Law: 2nd Edtion
Compensation to Survivors Widow's Pension A widow's pension pertains to pension benefits paid to: (a) the spouse of a deceased pensioner or a person with pension rights who does not receive a pension, (b) a domestic partner, subject to ...
Dennis Campbell, Center for International Legal Studies (CILS), 2013
4
Veterans' Entitlements Law
At the time, the applicant lived in a small country town in Victoria and was completely unaware of her possible entitlement to a widow's pension. As a result she raised her children without any assistance from the Department of Veterans' Affairs ...
Robin Creyke, Peter H. Sutherland, 2008
5
Official Year Book of Australia No. 60, 1974
A widow's pension is not payable to a woman receiving an age or invalid pension , a sheltered employment allowance, or a war ... action to obtain maintenance from her husband or former husband may be ineligible for a widow's pension.
Australian Bureau of Statistics
6
Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes in a ...
Entitlement to a widow's pension through the social insurance scheme was introduced in Sweden in the mid-1940s, and the benefits were tested against income and wealth. A more extensive widow's pension came into effect in 1960 with ...
Robert Holzmann, Edward Palmer, David Robalino, 2012
7
Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine: Iron, Guns, and Pearls
Declaration for Widow's Pension, July 10, 1890, Certificate 5096, in Sophia R. Kroehl, “Widow's Naval Pension Application File.” 15. New York Times, December 6, 1890. 16. Ibid. 17. The New York Times for September 30, 1883, lists the death ...
James P. Delgado, 2012
8
Soc Servcs Brit Indus Ils 192
Retirement Pension, A widow having a widow's pension may keep it until she is 65, when it will be replaced by a retirement pension. She may also benefit from her husband's graduated contributions. She is thus in a more advantageous ...
A. F. Young, 2013
9
Documents on the International Court of Justice
service ended, shall be entitled to a widow's pension calculated as follows: (a) If the former member had not begun, at the date of his death, to receive his retirement pension, the widow's pension shall amount to one- half of the pension which ...
Shabtai Rosenne, 1974
10
Report of the Human Righys Committee Volume II
4.5 The State party explains that the Minister's decision in 1999 to award the author a special widow's pension did not stem from the above arguments ceasing to be valid, but was rather prompted by the fact that the prevailing attitudes towards ...

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WIDOW'S PENSION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term widow's pension is used in the context of the following news items.
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Widow wins war pension claim that husband died from developing …
A WOMAN has won the right to a war widow's pension by proving her late husband's death was linked to the excessive salt-eating habit he developed as a ... «Courier Mail, Jan 14»
2
Shop around for an annuity – and get a widow's pension for nothing
... income to start with but will also receive – in effect, thrown in for nothing – a pension that continues to pay out to a widow or widower should the buyer die first. «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 13»

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