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welfare
Noun
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Someone's welfare is their health, safety, and other things the make them happy.
Children need to exercise each day, for both their physical and psychological welfare.
This group has tried to promote the welfare of old people throughout the United Kingdom.
It is clear that the issues the environment and animal welfare have become very important recently.
Few countries have the same level of social welfare that we have in Canada.
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Welfare is money paid by the government to poor people.
The government is reviewing the welfare benefits which single parents receive.
He lost his job and his home and has had to go on welfare.
pension
Noun
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A pension is money paid regularly by a government or company to someone who has stopped working, usually because of age or illness.
When her pension ran out, she had to sell her house and move in with her daughter.
He regularly puts money into a retirement pension plan.
The employees do not like how the company is investing their retirement pension funds.
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In Europe, a pension is a small hotel.
I stayed at a pension during my trip to London.
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A pension is what you pay for living in someone else's house or for staying at a small hotel.
Did you remember to pay the landlady the pension?