retirement check
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3.1
- noun
- /rɪˈtaɪərmənt tʃɛk/
- US
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pensión
- All you people have to do is join the military for thirty years like I did, and you will get a retirement check and low dental and health care.
- receive a retirement check
Examples
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After decades of work, she finally started receiving her retirement check last week.
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I could lay out $1,000 for a new machine—not on a retirement check.
Blog text (22) -
The Federal Government holds the Social Security and retirement checks of the people.
Blog text (26) -
Instead, she and her husband now allocate almost all of his military retirement check just to the monthly mortgage bill.
Blog text (5) -
The last three companies you took over were cut up into so many pieces, widows were left without their retirement checks.
Fiction book (1990) -
Also, pensions are based on the 5 highest years' salary; if you go 3 or 4 years at a time with no raise, your retirement check amount does not go up.
Blog text (2) -
For Jennifer W., how are the people going to get their stimulus checks (and how much) that get their retirement check from their employers?
Blog text (23) -
Yes, I can ignore our problems since I receive my retirement check that I earned, my social check that I earned, and my Medicare that I earned, but I have two beautiful granddaughters, and I have to fight for them because they one day will have children, and what will be left for them?
Blog text (32) -
He or she is only entitled to an ID retiree card and retirement check based on the years of service (normally 20 years), unless the SM was separated for medical reasons.
Blog text (1) -
Every month, I receive a retirement check that helps cover my living expenses.
Synonyms
517
3.2
A regular payment from the government or a company to a person who has retired to help pay living costs
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3.4
A regular payment someone gets after they stop working, often from a pension
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2.7
A regular payment to people who have stopped working, often from the government or an employer
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9.7
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 Large
- US
1
3.1
- Specialized
2
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'retirement' specifies the reason/recipient and 'check' denotes a payment instrument, so a learner who knows both words can infer this is a payment received in retirement (i.e., a pension payment). This noun–noun construction is common and parallels similar forms in other languages, making it immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Retirement check comes from the simple image of someone who has stopped work (retirement) receiving a paper check with money on a regular date. Imagine a retired worker opening an envelope each month to find the same check paying their bills — that's why it means 'a regular payment someone gets after they retire'.