noun a payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
2. pension ·noun a certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
3. pension ·noun a boarding house or boarding school in france, belgium, switzerland, ·etc.
4. pension ·vt 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.
5. pension ·noun 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.