pension
(noun) a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working
pension, pension off
(verb) grant a pension to
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pension (plural pensions)
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. [from 16th c.]
A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services. [from 17th c.]
(obsolete) A wage or fee. [14th-19th c.]
(obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax. [14th-17th c.]
A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
(now historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar. [from 16th c.]
(obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
• (regularly paid gratuity): superannuation
• (boarding house): hotel, hostel, (informal) bed and breakfast, See lodging place
• (payment for accommodations): rent
• (UK retirement schemes): AVC, buyout policy, FSAVC, GPP, GSHP, GSIPP, personal pension, retirement annuity contract, S2P, SERPS, SIPP, SSAS, stakeholder pension
• (boarding house): bed-and-breakfast, half-pension, full-pension
• (boarding house): inn, motel, hotel, board, half-board, full-board
pension (third-person singular simple present pensions, present participle pensioning, simple past and past participle pensioned)
(transitive)
(transitive) To grant a pension to.
(transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
• (to force to retire): pension off
• nosepin
Source: Wiktionary
Pen"sion, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. pensio a paying, payment, fr. pendere, pensum, to weight, to pay; akin to pend to hang. See Pendant, and cf. Spend.]
1. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [Obs.] The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. Sylvester.
2. A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like. To all that kept the city pensions and wages. 1 Esd. iv. 56.
3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. [Eng.] Mozley & W.
4. Etym: [F., pronounced .]
Definition: A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Pen"sion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pensioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Pensioning.]
Definition: To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant. One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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