[pen.sion] n [ME, fr. MF, fr. L pension-, pensio, fr. pendere to pay--more at pendant] (14c) 1: a fixed sum paid regularly to a person: a archaic: wage b: a gratuity granted (as by a government) as a favor or reward c: one paid under given conditions to a person following retirement from service or to surviving dependents
2. [F, fr. MF] a: accommodations esp. at a continental European hotel or boardinghouse: room and board b also pen.sio.ne [pensione, fr. It]: a hotel or boardinghouse esp. in continental Europe -- pen.sion.less adj
[2]pension vt pen.sioned ; pen.sion.ing (1702) 1: to grant or pay a pension to
2: to dismiss or retire from service with a pension "~ed off his faithful old servant"