'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'

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