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pension |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pension \Pen"sion\, n. [F., fr L. pensio a paying, payment, fr pendere, pensum to weight, to pay akin to pend?re to hang. See {Pendant}, and cf {Spend}.] 1. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given [Obs.] The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. --Sylvester. 2. 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 To all that kept the city pensions and wages. --1 Esd. iv 56. 3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. [Eng.] --Mozley & W. 4. [F., pronounced ?.] A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pension \Pen"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pensioned}; p. pr & vb n. {Pensioning}.] 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. One knighted Blackmore and one pensioned Quarles --Pope. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pension n : a monthly payment to someone who is retired from work [syn: {retirement check}, {retirement benefit}, {retirement fund}] v : grant a pension to [syn: {pension off}]
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