## Meanings
1. A regular sum of money paid to a person after they retire from work.
2. To allow or make someone retire and receive a pension.
3. A small, inexpensive hotel or guest house, especially in continental Europe.

## Examples
- Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.
- The company pensioned off several older workers last year.
- We stayed in a cosy little pension near the station.

## Synonyms
- hostel
- hotel

## Derived Forms
- outpension
- pensionable
- pensionary
- pensionee
- pensioneering
- pensioner
- pensionless

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *(s)pend-
- Root: pencioun
- Root: pencione
- Root: pencion
- Root: pēnsiō

## 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.

## AI Etymology
Pension comes 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. In present-day English it covers a regular sum of money paid to a person after they retire from work, to allow or make someone retire and receive a pension, and a small, inexpensive hotel or guest house, especially in continental Europe. The wider family includes derived forms such as outpension, pensionable, pensionary, pensionee, pensioneering.

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