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Pension
//ˈpɛnʃən// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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.
"Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills."
- 2 A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
"A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not"
- 3 a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working wordnet
- 4 A wage or fee. obsolete
- 5 A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc. obsolete
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- 6 A charge or expense of some kind; a tax. obsolete
- 7 A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
- 8 A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar. historical
Verb
- 1 To grant a pension to. transitive
- 2 grant a pension to wordnet
- 3 To force (someone) to retire on a pension. transitive
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”).
Etymology 2
From Middle English pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”).
Etymology 3
From French pension, from Old French pencion, as etymology 1 above. Doublet of pensione.
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