Definitions for pensions

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pensions pen·sion

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

IPA: /ˈpɛn ʃən; French pɑ̃ˈsyɔ̃ for 3/

Pensions is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in pensions (einnopss).

Definitions for pensions

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 pensions

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 pensions

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

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

Young says she ultimately lost her health benefits and pension.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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