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pension

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This page has 25 definitions of pension with English translations in 9 languages. Pension is a noun and verb. Examples of how to use pension in a sentence are shown. Also define these 35 related words and terms: annuity, benefit, employee, serviceman, boarding house, wage, fee, charge, expense, tax, clergyman, tithe, allowance, patronage, boarding school, France, Belgium, Switzerland, grant, force, retire, payment, admission, lodging, meal, pensio, pension, riiklik, state, board, pencioun, panssion, retirement, fund, and accommodation.

See also: Pension and pensión

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

pension (plural pensions)

  1. 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. [from 16th c.]
    Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.
    • Annuity definition
      A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.
  2. A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services. [from 17th c.]
    A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not (John Irving).
  3. (obsolete) A wage or fee. [14th-19th c.]
    • Wage definition
      An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
  4. (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax. [14th-17th c.]
  5. A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
  6. (now historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar. [from 16th c.]
  7. (obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

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Verb

pension (third-person singular simple present pensions, present participle pensioning, simple past and past participle pensioned) (transitive)

  1. (transitive) To grant a pension to.
  2. (transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
    • Force definition
      Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect. (1 of 14 force definitions)

Synonyms

  • (to force to retire): pension off

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pension, itself from Latin pensio (payment, rent), from pensus, the past participle of pendere (to weigh, pay).

Pronunciation

Noun

pension n (plural pensions, diminutive pensionnetje n)

  1. A pension, boarding house
  2. A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments
  3. The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals

Derived terms

  • pensionboerderij
  • pensiongast m
  • pensionhouder m
  • half pension n
  • vol pension n

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Esperanto

Noun

pension

  1. accusative singular of pensio
    • Pensio definition
      pension

Estonian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem.

Pronunciation

Noun

pension (genitive pensioni, partitive pensioni or pensionit)

  1. pension
    riiklik pensionstate pension
    • Riiklik definition
      state , national (of or relating to a sovereign polity and its governing institutions)

Declension

Derived terms

  • pensioniiga
  • rahvapension
  • toitjakaotuspension
  • töövõimetuspension
  • vanaduspension
 

Further reading


French

Etymology

From Old French pension, panssion, borrowed from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem (payment, rent), from pensus, the past participle of pendō (weigh, pay).

Pronunciation

Noun

pension f (plural pensions)

  1. a pension, regularly received payment
    pension à taux plein
    full pension
  2. a pension, boarding house
  3. a regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments (notably schools)
  4. board; (The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals)

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Middle English

Noun

pension

  1. Alternative form of pencioun
    • Pencioun definition
      a regularly (usually annually) paid stipend; an annuity. (1 of 4 pencioun definitions)

Old French

Noun

pension f (oblique plural pensions, nominative singular pension, nominative plural pensions)

  1. Alternative form of panssion
    • Panssion definition
      rent; regular payment in exchange for use of something

Romanian

Etymology

From French pension.

Noun

pension n (plural pensioane)

  1. boarding school

Declension


Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

pension c

  1. pension, retirement
    att gå i pension
    to retire
  2. pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
  3. pension, accommodation

Declension

Declension of pension 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pension pensionen pensioner pensionerna
Genitive pensions pensionens pensioners pensionernas

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See also

  • änkekassa
  • pantertant
  • passion
  • pupillkassa

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Venetian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem. Compare Italian pensione.

Noun

pension f (invariable)

  1. pension