pension
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.
an allowance, annuity, or subsidy.
(in France and elsewhere in continental Europe)
a boardinghouse or small hotel.
room and board.
to grant or pay a pension to.
to cause to retire on a pension (usually followed by off).
Origin of pension
1Other 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-pensioned, adjective
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How to use pension in a sentence
Paying for all those pensions inevitably means less money for parks and schools.
How Public Sector Unions Divide the Democrats | Daniel DiSalvo | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPeople on fixed incomes and government pensions are the first to feel the pain.
The attempt was hatched in an effort to have a death sentence on an IRA man commuted, the military pensions archives reveal.
Why bring up pensions at all—except as a smokescreen, and a transparent one at that?
The Hypocrisy Behind The New York Times’s Abrupt Decapitation of Jill Abramson | Robert Shrum | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTState and local pensions are underfunded by as much as $3 trillion.
Powerbroker Richard Ravitch Thinks New York Might Be Doomed | Josh Robin | April 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
He has come to believe in such things as old age pensions and national insurance.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe least opulent in the Academy were the first to reject his offers, and to prefer liberty to pensions and honors.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)Among the men discharged were several who had been at Derry, and who had received pensions since the abandonment of the post.
Ireland Under the Tudors, Vol. II (of 3) | Richard BagwellMinisters agreed in thinking it far wiser to provide against abuses for the future, than to take away pensions already granted.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanOn the death of Matthew, Paul, who far surpassed him as an artist, succeeded to his pensions and employments.
British Dictionary definitions for pension (1 of 2)
/ (ˈpɛnʃən) /
a regular payment made by the state to people over a certain age to enable them to subsist without having to work
a regular payment made by an employer to former employees after they retire
a regular payment made to a retired person as the result of his or her contributions to a personal pension scheme
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
(tr) to grant a pension to
Origin of pension
1Derived forms of pension
- pensionable, adjective
- pensionless, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for pension (2 of 2)
/ French (pɑ̃sjɔ̃) /
a relatively cheap boarding house
another name for full board
Origin of pension
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for pension
Payments made to a retired person either by the government or by a former employer.
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