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childless widow

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meanings of childlessand widow


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childless
adjective
uk /ˈtʃaɪld.ləs/ us /ˈtʃaɪld.ləs/
without ...
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widow
noun[C]
uk /ˈwɪd.əʊ/ us /ˈwɪd.oʊ/
a woman whose husband or wife has died and who has not ...
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Examples of childless widow


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Most vulnerable was the young, childlesswidow.
Much has been said about the childlesswidow and the spinster.
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I am speaking now of the childlesswidow.
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There may be fairly numerous cases where a childlesswidow was in employment before the war.
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Take the case of a young childlesswidow.
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For those who would not, who would leave the younger childlesswidow without pension, it becomes much more difficult to justify increasing this particular provision.
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I, as a childlesswidow, need not even go out to work.
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No advance has been given to the childlesswidow under the age of 40 who is capable of self-support.
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The rate of pension is considered appropriate for the case of a young childlesswidow who is not incapable of earning a livelihood through infirmity.
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No matter how much we raise the basic pension it can never provide an able-bodied childlesswidow with her previous standard of living.
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We are dealing, in effect, with the younger childlesswidow.
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The same strength of argument does not apply in the case of the childlesswidow.
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One needs only to consider the position of a widow married in say 1947, a childlesswidow, of the same age as a widow who married in 1949.
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Indeed, a childlesswidow whose husband died when she was 25 would get into the circle if all widows were admitted, but a spinster would be kept outside.
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A childlesswidow aged 50½ receives the widow's pension and at 60 the retirement pension if she so elects and if the necessary contributions have been paid.
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A childlesswidow was without both means of provision.
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Warne was left as a young childlesswidow in search of work.
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Childless widows receive their husband's pay for three months after his death.
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It is not too much to ask that childless widows under 6o years of age ought to be included.
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It is true that younger childless widows would lose their small pension.
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