pension
Meaning of pension
- a regular payment made by the state to people of or above the official retirement age and to some widows and disabled people.
men can draw a pension from the age of sixty-five
- dismiss someone from employment, typically because of age or ill health, and pay them a pension.
he was pensioned off from the army after the war
late Middle English (in the sense ‘payment, tax, regular sum paid to retain allegiance’): from Old French, from Latin pensio(n- ) ‘payment’, from pendere ‘to pay’. The current verb sense dates from the mid 19th century.
noun
a small hotel or boarding house in France and other European countries.
French.
Information about pension
- The plural form of pension is: pensions.
- Languages in which pension is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of pension
pen-sion
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- pension is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
pension synonyms
Meaning a fixed sum of money paid to someone each year, typically for the rest of their life:
Meaning regular payment made into a fund by an employee towards a future pension:
Meaning a sum of money paid regularly to a person to meet needs or expenses:
Meaning a payment made by the state or an insurance scheme to someone entitled to receive it:
Meaning a thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright:
Meaning financial support given to those who are unemployed or otherwise in need:
Meaning the action of helping someone by sharing work:
Translation of pension
- Spanish: pensión, jubilación
- French: pension, retraite
- German: Pension
- Italian: pensione
- Portuguese: pensão
Anagrams of pension
Words that rhyme with pension
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