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1. (n.) pension
a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents for past services, injury or loss sustained, etc.
2. pension
an allowance, annuity, or subsidy.
3. pension
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4. pension
a boardinghouse or small hotel.
5. pension
room and board.
6. (v.t.) pension
to grant or pay a pension to.
7. pension
to cause to retire on a pension (usu. fol. by off).
Etymology: (1325–75; ME (< OF) < L pēnsiō weighing out, payment, der. (with
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) pension
a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working
2. (verb) pension, pension off
grant a pension to
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1. (noun) pension
the money sb receives when they reach a particular age or when they retire
a state pension; to draw a pension
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) pension
a payment; a tribute; something paid or given
2. (noun) pension
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
3. (noun) pension
a certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes
4. (noun) pension
a boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc
5. (verb) pension
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
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Sense: a sum of money paid regularly to a widow, a person who has retired from work, a soldier who has been seriously injured in a war etc
He lives on his pension; a retirement pension.
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 Afrikaans: pensioen |
 Arabic: مَعاش، راتِب التَّقاعُد |
 Bulgarian: пенсия |
 Brazilian: pensão |
 Czech: důchod |
 German: die Pension |
 Danish: pension |
 Greek: σύνταξη |
 Spanish: pensión |
 Estonian: pension |
 Farsi: حقوق بازنشستگی؛ مقرری |
 Finnish: eläke |
 French: pension, rente |
 Hebrew: קִצבָה |
 Hindi: पेंशन |
 Croatian: mirovina, penzija |
 Hungarian: nyugdíj |
 Indonesian: pensiun |
 Icelandic: eftirlaun |
 Italian: pensione |
 Japanese: 年金 |
 Korean: 연금 |
 Lithuanian: pensija |
 Latvian: pensija |
 Malay: duit pencen |
 Dutch: pensioen |
 Norwegian: pensjon, trygd |
 Polish: emerytura, renta |
 Persian: حقوق بازنشستگی؛ مقرری |
 Pashto: تقاعد، دتقاعد پيسې |
 Portuguese: pensão |
 Romanian: pensie |
 Russian: пенсия |
 Slovak: dôchodok, penzia |
 Slovenian: pokojnina |
 Serbian: penzija |
 Swedish: pension |
 Thai: เงินบำนาญ |
 Turkish: emekli maaşı |
 Taiwanese: 撫恤金，養老金，退休金 |
 Ukrainian: пенсія, допомога |
 Urdu: پنشن، وظيفۂ کبر سني |
 Vietnamese: lương hưu |
 Chinese: 抚恤金，养老金，退休金 |
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