The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PENSION
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PENSION
- Accommodation bringing security in old age?
- Pounds added to independent working payment
- . Writer one charged to invest bit of spare cash for retirement
- A penny? Uproar about taking new income
- Board to get penis turning over
- 23 constructed on European boarding-house
- Money saved up for foreign holiday property
- Plan for retirement?
- Boarding house where there’s a small charge added to writers
- Having no spine could be a benefit
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The straight part
We know that "Accommodation/security in old age" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case accommodation/security in old age = pension.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PENSION mean?
PENSION noun- An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes.
- A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
- A wage or fee.
- A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
- A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
- A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.
- A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
- To grant a pension to.
- To force (someone) to retire on a pension.