meaning of pension
1. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
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.
3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
4. A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
5. 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.
6. a regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow them to subsist without working
Related Words
pension | pension account | pension fund | pension off | pension plan | pensionable | pensionaries | pensionary | pensioned | pensioner | pensioning |
