Pension(n.) A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
Pension(n.) 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.
Pension(n.) A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
Pension(n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Pension(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.
Pensioned(imp. & p. p.) of Pension
Pensioner(n.) One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent.
Pensioner(n.) One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of £150 and two horses.
Pensioner(n.) In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford.
Pensioning(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pension
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