retirement benefit
- noun
- /rɪˈtaɪərmənt ˈbɛnɪfɪt/
- Many employees rely on their retirement benefits to maintain their standard of living after they stop working.
- retirement benefits—pensions
- receiving retirement benefits
- provide retirement benefits
And it may mean they leave well paying positions, accumulated retirement benefits, health benefits, all kinds of things.
- And it may mean they leave well paying positions, accumulated retirement benefits, health benefits, all kinds of things.
- And I have been witness to more than a couple of companies literally lose their parents entire retirement benefits.
- Do does the average worker pay for their retirement benefits that they get out of the system or would they be because that's a big debate, right?
Examples
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At the same time, the old generation lives on social security and other retirement benefits.
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From the beginning of Social Security in 1935, retirement benefits were restricted to those who were retired.
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If their private accounts rise at a higher rate, workers would receive increased retirement benefits.
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The original act provided only retirement benefits, and these were only for the worker.
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We need to provide retirement benefits for all workers in some way so that everybody can opt in.
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France, Italy, and Germany, for instance, now allow full retirement benefits at age 60 for broad categories of workers.
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When Brobeck closed its doors, it left a number of longtime partners without promised retirement benefits.
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The starting point for any consideration of reform must be the federal subsidization of retirement benefits.
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The city noted that since September 1944, it had contracted with CalPERS to provide retirement benefits for its employees.
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In determining retirement benefits, the Social Security Administration currently averages a worker's 35 highest earning years.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
A payment from the government or an employer to help people who need money
A regular payment from the government or a company to a person who has retired to help pay living costs
A regular payment to people who have stopped working, often from the government or an employer
Regular monthly money a person gets after they stop working
Regular payments a retired worker gets from a pension fund
A regular payment from the government or an employer to someone who has retired
How Generous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a regular payment made after leaving paid work' is directly derivable from 'retirement' (the period after leaving work) combined with 'benefit' (a social or employment payment). This noun+noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows transparent compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Retirement benefit comes from the simple idea that retirement means to leave work and benefit means a payment or help given to you. So, it means the regular payments someone gets after they 'stop working'.