PENSION


Meaning of PENSION in English

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.

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