Definitions for pension

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pension pen·sion

Spelling: [pen-shuh n; French pahn-sy

IPA: /ˈpɛn ʃən; French pɑ̃ˈsyɔ̃ for 3/

Pension is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in pension (einnops).

Definitions for pension

noun

1. a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.:
2. an allowance, annuity, or subsidy.
3. a boardinghouse or small hotel. room and board.

verb (used with object)

1. to grant or pay a pension to.
2. to cause to retire on a pension (usually followed by off).

Origin of pension

1325-75; Middle English (Old French pensïon) Latin pēnsiōn- (stem of pēnsiō) a weighing out, hence, a paying out, installment paying, equivalent to pēns(us) (past participle of pendere to wei

Examples for pension

Sir William's pension of L1200 a year ceased with his death.

But when Tarkhan got sick with tuberculosis and was ushered out, the government gave him no pension or medical assistance.

He's got one eye out; lost it lookin' fer a pension, I believe.

But Raimondo ran a targeted, data-driven campaign that, like the pension reforms, was driven by the facts and not by emotion.

He returned home a pauper without a pension and 50 years later, at 70, chronicled the travails of the War of Independence.

Young says she ultimately lost her health benefits and pension.

The practical result of the Ode was a pension of 200 a year conferred on him by Queen Anne.

The pension fund, the union declared, had fallen victim to “a Wall Street coup.”

I had no thought of this pension, at all, in coming up to town.

This was the last I had seen of my ticket, and almost the last I had thought of my pension.