pension
Meanings
Plural: pensions
Noun
- a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working
- 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.
- A wage or fee.
- A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
- A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
- A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.
- A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
- A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Verb
- grant a pension to
- To grant a pension to.
- To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”).
Synonyms
bed and breakfast, hostel, hotel, lodging place, pension off, rent, superannuation
Scrabble Score: 9
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