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pension definition

pen·sion (pen′s̸hən; for n. 3, Fr pän syōn′)

noun

  1. a payment, not wages, made regularly to a person (or to his family) who has fulfilled certain conditions of service, reached a certain age, etc. a soldier's pension, an old-age pension
  2. a regular payment, not a fee, given to an artist, etc. by a patron; subsidy
  3. in France and other continental countries
    1. a boardinghouse
    2. room and board

Etymology: ME pensioun < MFr < L pensio, a paying < pp. of pendere, to weigh, pay, hang: see pendant

transitive verb

to grant a pension to

Related Forms:

pension Idioms

pension off

to dismiss from service with a pension

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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