pension

noun

1. 1

   An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes.

   Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.

2. 2

   obsoleteA wage or fee.

3. 3

   obsoleteA charge or expense of some kind; a tax.

4. 4

   A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.

5. 5

   historicalA regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.

verb

1. 1

   To grant a pension to.

2. 2

   To force (someone) to retire on a pension.

noun

1. 1

   A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.

   A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not

2. 2

   obsoleteA boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

Forms

plural

pensions

past tense

pensioned

past participle

pensioned

present participle

pensioning

third person singular

pensions