'Pension' definitions:
Definition of 'pension'
From: WordNet
noun
A regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working
verb
Grant a pension to [syn: pension, pension off]
Definition of 'Pension'
From: GCIDE
- Pension \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.] [1913 Webster]
- The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. --Sylvester. [1913 Webster]
- 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; also, 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. [1913 Webster]
- To all that kept the city pensions and wages. --1 Esd. iv. 56. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. [Eng.] --Mozley & W. [1913 Webster]
- 4. [F., pronounced ?.] A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pension'
From: GCIDE
- Pension \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. [1913 Webster]
- One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pension'
From: Moby 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