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Definition of Pension

1. Noun. A regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working.

Definition of Pension

1. n. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.

2. v. t. 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.

Definition of Pension

1. Noun. A regularly paid gratuity paid regularly as benefit due to a person in consideration of past services; notably to one retired from service, on account of retirement age, disability or similar cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers; sometimes passed on to the heirs, or even specifically for them, as to the families of soldiers killed in service. ¹

2. Noun. A stated regular allowance by way of patronage or subsidy, e.g. to meritorious artists, or the like. ¹

3. Noun. Accommodations or the payment for accommodations, especially at a boarding house or small hotel in Europe. ¹

4. Noun. A boarding house or small hotel, as in continental Europe, which offers lodging and certain meals and services. ¹

5. Noun. (archaic) A wage in active service ¹

6. Verb. To grant a pension ¹

7. Verb. To force someone to retire on a pension. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pension

1. to grant a retirement allowance to [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Pension

1. 1. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. "The stomach's pension, and the time's expense." (Sylvester) 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. "To all that kept the city pensions and wages." (1 Esd. Iv. 56) 3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. 4. [F, pronounced] A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc. Origin: F, fr. L. Pensio a paying, payment, fr. Pendere, pensum, to weight, to pay; akin to pendre to hang. See Pendant, and cf. Spend. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pension

Literary usage of Pension

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Oecd Economic Surveys by OECD Economic Surveys (2005)
"A1 Long-term pension system projections pension system projections have recently been revised based on a sample of individual records available from pension ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"The words "total disability "in pension laws bave a technical ... Under section 4702, RS a widow is only entitled to receive the same pension to which her ..."

3. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"An act granting a pension to William J. Cotty, late oí the twenty-first Missouri ... Au act granting a pension to Frances M. Webster. July 27, 1868, ch. ..."

4. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"(c) If one Is between 5 and 10 and the other 5 years old or less, $42.50 per month, less pension of husband and allowances for children under the pension ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"13144) introduced 31 July 1911, aimed to provide a pension for all persons reaching 60 years of age, and having been citizens of the United States for 16 ..."

6. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"A 675.6rf. widow's pension is reduced by sixpence for each shilling of any net earnings in excess of 851. and a further sixpence for each shilling of net ..."

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