PENSION

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

Etymology

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (regularly paid gratuity): superannuation

• (boarding house): hotel, hostel, (informal) bed and breakfast, See lodging place

• (payment for accommodations): rent

Hyponyms

• (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

Coordinate terms

• (boarding house): inn, motel, hotel, board, half-board, full-board

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• (to force to retire): pension off

Anagrams

• 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