retirement program
- noun
- /rɪˈtaɪərmənt ˈprɒɡræm/
- Many employees benefit from a well-structured retirement program that helps them save for the future.
- early retirement programs
Examples
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Both sides agreed to cuts from the military retirement program.
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Other retirement programs do provide some of these protections, but none do it as well as Social Security.
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The Federal Employees Retirement System is one of the premier retirement programs in the nation.
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All citizens need to realize that the Social Security system was designed as a supplementary insurance and retirement program.
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In some ways, the real question is whether a government wants a rule that protects private retirement programs or relies on public retirement programs.
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Finally, the military's retirement program should be revised.
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In designing a retirement program, one of the first steps is to set forth the objectives the program is to satisfy.
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Income replacement ratios are normally developed when designing retirement programs.
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Unlike cutting benefits or raising payroll taxes, PSAs would result in a social retirement program that is substantially different from the current Social Security system.
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About 11,000 employees will move to our new spin-off company, and about 5,000 jobs will be eliminated, primarily through natural attrition and early-retirement programs being offered to various units.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
Money that an employer or worker saves regularly to give income after you stop working
A set of savings and investments that gives you money after you stop working
A plan where you save money to use after you stop working
A US retirement plan where workers save part of pay before tax and employers often add money, taxed when taken
A US savings account for money used after you stop working that grows without tax until you take it out
An account that holds money to use after you stop working
Money you regularly save to use after you stop working
An account for saving money to use after you stop working
A program from an employer that lets workers save part of their pay for retirement or other future needs
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional from 'retirement' (the period after leaving paid work) and 'program' (an organized plan or system): a B1 learner who knows both words can infer this is a program related to retirement, typically a savings or benefit plan. This noun-noun combination follows a straightforward, cross-linguistically common pattern, so the sense is immediately accessible without special idiomatic knowledge.
Etymology
Retirement program comes from two simple ideas: retirement meaning 'to stop working' and program meaning a planned set of steps. Imagine a routine that puts money into a safe box little by little so you can stop work later — that's why it means 'a plan to save money to use after someone stops working'.