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Pension - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Pension : (noun)
1: a regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow
them to subsist without working
(verb)
1: grant a pension to [syn: pension off]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.]
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles.
--Pope.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Pension |
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