From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pension \Pen"sion\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Pensioned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pensioning}.] To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.
One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles. --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pension \Pen"sion\, noun [F., fr. L. pensio a paying, payment, fr. pendere, pensum, to weight, to pay; akin to pend?re to hang. See {Pendant}, and cf. {Spend}.]
1. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [Obs.]
The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. --Sylvester.
2. A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.
To all that kept the city pensions and wages. --1 Esd. iv. 56.
3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.
4. [F., pronounced ?.] A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow them to subsist without working
verb
1: grant a pension to [syn: {pension off}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "pension": aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance, benefit, boardinghouse, bounty, depletion allowance, dismiss, dole, dorm, dormitory, doss house, fellowship, financial assistance, fleabag, flophouse, grant, grant-in-aid, guaranteed annual income, guest house, help, hospice, hostel, hostelry, hotel, inn, lodging house, old-age insurance, ordinary, pecuniary aid, pension off, posada, price support, pub, public, public assistance, public house, public welfare, relief, retirement benefits, roadhouse, rooming house, scholarship, shelve, social security, stipend, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, superannuate, superannuation, support, tavern, tax benefit, welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments
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