| 单词 | pension house |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspension house pension house n. (a) a building in Gray's Inn in which consultative assemblies were held (see sense 8) (obsolete); (b) (also pensions house) (originally) †a house in which pensioners are accommodated (obsolete); (now) a financial institution dealing in pensions. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > Inns of Court > part where records of payments kept pension house1577 1577 Pension Bk. Gray's Inn 30 A good and substanciall chist..to remayne in the pencion house..for the keping of the bookes of account and pencion Roles. 1601 Pension Bk. Gray's Inn 153 Mr. Necton beinge warned to come to the pencion house hath refused to come. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) vi. 156 In a pension house, which is commonly kept by a preist..they are commonly so bigotted..that they will not take care of them, if they are not catholicks. 1837 Times 30 Dec. 3/1 The number of poor..admitted into the poorhouses and pension-houses in 1837 was 12,945. 2004 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 21 Jan. 7 State pension funds, state-controlled pension houses,..and food and other monopolies offer additional milk-cow situations to the politically connected. < as lemmas |
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