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Definition of pension - 8 dictionary results

pen⋅sion

[pen-shuhn; Fr. pahn-syawn for 3] noun, plural -sions [-shuhnz; Fr. -syawn for 3] , verb
–noun
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. a boardinghouse or small hotel.
b. room and board.
–verb (used with object)
4. to grant or pay a pension to.
5. to cause to retire on a pension (usually fol. by off).

Origin:
1325–75; ME (< OF pensïon) < L pēnsiōn- (s. of pēnsiō) a weighing out, hence, a paying out, installment paying, equiv. to pēns(us) (ptp. of pendere to weigh out, pay by weight, equiv. to pend- v. s. + -tus ptp. suffix, with dt > s) + -iōn- -ion


pen⋅sion⋅a⋅ble, adjective
pen⋅sion⋅a⋅bly, adverb
pen⋅sion⋅less, adjective
pen·sion 1   (pěn'shən)   
n.  A sum of money paid regularly as a retirement benefit or by way of patronage.
tr.v.   pen·sioned, pen·sion·ing, pen·sions
  1. To grant a pension to.
  2. To retire or dismiss with a pension: "Some French farmers suggest that the Government pension off the older and less efficient farmers" (E.J. Dionne, Jr.)

[Middle English pensioun, payment, from Old French pension, from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōn-, from pēnsus, past participle of pendere, to weigh, pay; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]
pen'sion·a·ble adj.
pen·sion 2   (päɴ-syôɴ')   
n.  
  1. A boarding house or small hotel in Europe: "A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not" (John Irving).
  2. Accommodations or the payment for accommodations, especially at a boarding house or small hotel in Europe.
  3. Room and board.

[French, from Old French, payment; see pension1.]

Pension

Pen"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. pensio a paying, payment, fr. pendere, pensum, to weight, to pay; akin to pend?re 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. [F., pronounced ?.] A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

Pension

Pen"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pensioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Pensioning.] 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.
Language Translation for : pension
Spanish: pensión,
German: die Pension,
Japanese: 年金

pension

Payments made to a retired person either by the government or by a former employer.


pension 
1362, "payment for services," especially "reward, payment out of a benefice" (1316, in Anglo-L.), from O.Fr. pension "payment, rent," from L. pensionem (nom. pensio) "payment, rent," from pensus, pp. of pendere "pay, weigh" (see pendant). Meaning "regular payment in consideration of past service" first recorded 1529. Meaning "boarding house, boarding school" first attested 1644, from French, and usually in ref. to places in France or elsewhere on the Continent. Pensioner first recorded 1487.

Main Entry: pen·sion
Function: noun
: money paid under given conditions to a person following retirement or to surviving dependents —see also DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN, DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN
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