Pension

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English

Noun

Pension (plural Pensions)
  1. A regularly paid gratuity paid regularly as benefit due to a person in consideration of past services; notably to one retired from service, on account of retirement age, disability or similar cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers; sometimes passed on to the heirs, or even specifically for them, as to the families of soldiers killed in service.
    Pensioners depend on their pension to pay the bills
  2. A stated regular allowance by way of patronage or subsidy, e.g. to meritorious artists, or the like.
  3. Accommodations or the payment for accommodations, especially at a boarding house or small hotel in Europe.
  4. A boarding house or small hotel, as in continental Europe, which offers lodging and certain meals and services.
    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).
  5. (archaic) A wage in active service

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terms derived from pension (noun)

Verb

Pension (third-person singular simple present Pensions, present participle Pensioning, simple past and past participle Pensioned) (transitive)

  1. To grant a pension
  2. To force someone to retire on a pension.

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Adjectives for Pension

contributory; liberal; retiring; literary; subsidiary; old-age.

Verbs for Pension

assign—; authorize—; bestow—upon; derive —from; establish—; exact—; fix—; forfeit —; grant—; merit—; proffer—; provide—; request—; reserve for—; retire on—; welcome—; yield—; —assists; —enables; —encourages; —supports; —sustains.

Thesaurus

aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance, benefit, boardinghouse, bounty, depletion allowance, dismiss, dole, dorm, dormitory, doss house, fellowship, financial assistance, fleabag, flophouse, grant, grant-in-aid, guaranteed annual income, guest house, help, hospice, hostel, hostelry, hotel, inn, lodging house, old-age insurance, ordinary, pecuniary aid, pension off, posada, price support, pub, public, public assistance, public house, public welfare, relief, retirement benefits, roadhouse, rooming house, scholarship, shelve, social security, stipend, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, superannuate, superannuation, support, tavern, tax benefit, welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments

Etymology

Recorded since 1362 from Old French pension (“payment", "rent”), from Latin pensio (“payment", "rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendere (“to weigh", "to pay”)

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Translations

Noun

regular payment due to a person in consideration of past services
accommodations
boarding house
stated regular allowance by way of patronage or subsidy
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Verb

to grant a pension
to force to retire

Dutch

Noun

Pension n. (plural pensions, diminutive pensionnetje, diminutive plural pensionnetjes)

  1. A pension, boarding house
  2. A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments
  3. The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals

Etymology

From French pension, itself from Latin pensio "payment, rent", from pensus, the past participle of pendere "to weigh, pay"

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Esperanto

Noun

pension

  1. accusative singular of pensio



French

Noun

Pension f. (plural Pensions)

  1. A pension, regularly received payment
    pension à taux plein
    full pension
  2. A pension, boarding house
  3. A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments (notably schools)
  4. board; (The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals)

Etymology

From Old French pension "payment, rent", from Latin pensio "payment, rent", from pensus, the past participle of pendere "to weigh, pay"

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Swedish

Noun

Pension c.

  1. pension, retirement
    att gå i pension
    to retire
  2. pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
  3. pension, accommodation

Pronunciation

Declension

Declension of Pension
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Pension Pensionen Pensioner Pensionerna
genitive Pensions Pensionens Pensioners Pensionernas

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