SUPERANNUATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superannuation mean? 

• SUPERANNUATION (noun)
  The noun SUPERANNUATION has 3 senses:

1. a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work

2. the property of being out of date and not current

3. the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension)

  Familiarity information: SUPERANNUATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERANNUATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

old-age pension; retirement benefit; retirement check; retirement fund; retirement pension; superannuation

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of being out of date and not current

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

obsoleteness; superannuation

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

oldness (the quality of being old; the opposite of newness)

Derivation:

superannuate (become obsolete)

superannuate (declare to be obsolete)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

discharge; dismissal; dismission; firing; liberation; release; sack; sacking (the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart))

Derivation:

superannuate (retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability)