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Definitions for Pension
[1] a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
[2] an allowance, annuity, or subsidy.
[3] (in France and elsewhere in continental Europe) a boardinghouse or small hotel. room and board.
[4] to grant or pay a pension to.
[5] to cause to retire on a pension (usually followed by off ).
[6] a regular payment made by the state to people over a certain age to enable them to subsist without having to work
[7] a regular payment made by an employer to former employees after they retire
[8] a regular payment made to a retired person as the result of his or her contributions to a personal pension scheme
[9] any regular payment made on charitable grounds, by way of patronage, or in recognition of merit, service, etc a pension paid to a disabled soldier
[10] (tr) to grant a pension to
[11] a relatively cheap boarding house
[12] another name for full board
Words related to Pension
premium, grant, subsidy, reward, payment, allowance, annuity, support, gift, subvention, IRA, superannuation
Words nearby Pension
pensacola bay, pensel, penshurst place, pensil, pensile, pension, pension fund, pension mortgage, pension off, pension plan, pensionary
Origin of Pension
1325–75; Middle English (< Old French pensïon ) < Latin pēnsiōn- (stem of pēnsiō ) a weighing out, hence, a paying out, installment paying, equivalent to pēns(us ) (past participle of pendere to weigh out, pay by weight, equivalent to pend- verb stem + -tus past participle suffix, with dt > s ) + -iōn- -ion
Other words from Pension
pen·sion·a·ble , adjective
pen·sion·a·bly , adverb
pen·sion·less , adjective
non·pen·sion·a·ble , adjective
un·pen·sion·a·ble , adjective
un·pen·sioned , adjective
un·pen·sion·ing , adjective
well-pen·sioned , adjective
Word origin for Pension
C17: French; extended meaning of pension grant; see pension 1
Synonyms for Pension
allowance, annuity, grant, payment, premium, retirement account, reward, social security, subsidy, IRA, gift, subvention, superannuation, support