Thesaurus: pension

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1. n. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
2. 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.
3. n. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
4. n. A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
5. 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.
6. n. a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working
7. v. grant a pension to
8. 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. Etym: [F., pronounced .] A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc. 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.
9. A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium,Switzerland, etc.
10. v:1/n:99 n. a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working v. grant a pension to