PENSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pension mean? 

• PENSION (noun)
  The noun PENSION has 1 sense:

1. a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working

  Familiarity information: PENSION used as a noun is very rare.

• PENSION (verb)
  The verb PENSION has 1 sense:

1. grant a pension to

  Familiarity information: PENSION used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("pension" is a kind of...):

regular payment (a payment made at regular times)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pension"):

old-age pension; retirement benefit; retirement check; retirement fund; retirement pension; superannuation (a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work)

Derivation:

pension (grant a pension to)

• PENSION (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pension    ... he / she / it pensions   
Past simple: pensioned   
Past participle: pensioned   
-ing form: pensioning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grant a pension to

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

pension; pension off

Hypernyms (to "pension" is one way to...):

award; grant (give as judged due or on the basis of merit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

pension (a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working)

pensionary; pensioner (the beneficiary of a pension fund)

 Context examples 

He knew Vevay well, and as soon as the boat touched the little quay, he hurried along the shore to La Tour, where the Carrols were living en pension.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The pension from each family for the education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor’s officers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His pension was due.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How it came to pass, that people were so violently bent upon getting into this assembly, which I allowed to be a great trouble and expense, often to the ruin of their families, without any salary or pension? because this appeared such an exalted strain of virtue and public spirit, that his majesty seemed to doubt it might possibly not be always sincere.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The meaner families who have children at these nurseries, are obliged, besides their annual pension, which is as low as possible, to return to the steward of the nursery a small monthly share of their gettings, to be a portion for the child; and therefore all parents are limited in their expenses by the law.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)