pension

Meaning

Noun

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.
2. (obsolete) A wage or fee.
3. (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
4. A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
5. (historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.

Verb

1. (transitive) To grant a pension to.
2. (transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.

Synonyms

annuity

retirement

retirement pension

stipend

retirement pay

boarding house

boarding school

old-age pension

superannuation

retirement annuity

benefit

salary

retirement benefit

pension off

retired pay

retreat

savings

social security

allowance

superannuate

syntax

half-pay

military pension

teacher pension

pension benefit

old-age benefit

pension allowance

board-and-lodging apartment

superannuation payment

stockpile

authorship

boardinghouse

boarding-house

check

compilation

emoluments

grant

old age pension

pay

💸

payment

💸

premium

quarterage

redaction

retire

Translations

Pension

pensione

pensioen

pensión

pension

pensão

retraite

Rente

pensió

σύνταξη

pension

jubilación

reddito

assegnamento

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɛnʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: pencioun

In summary

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”).