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pen⋅sion

  [pen-shuhn; Fr. pahn-syawn for 3] noun, plural -sions  [-shuhnz; Fr. -syawn for 3] , verb
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–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

Related forms:
pen⋅sion⋅a⋅ble, adjective
pen⋅sion⋅a⋅bly, adverb
pen⋅sion⋅less, adjective
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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
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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