pension

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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
   noun

   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

3. 3
   noun

   a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working

4. 4
   verb

   grant a pension to

5. 5
   noun

   A wage or fee.

6. 6
   noun

   A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.

7. 7
   noun

   A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.

8. 8
   noun

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

Etymology

From Middle English pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”). Doublet of pensione.