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Pension Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Pension?
[n] a regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow them to subsist without working
[v] grant a pension to Synonyms | Synonyms for Pension: pension off Related Terms | Find terms related to Pension: 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 See Also | award | grant | old-age pension | regular payment | retirement benefit | retirement check | retirement fund | retirement pension | superannuation Pension In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\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. |
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