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pension
English
Etymology
From Middle English pension, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin p?nsi?, p?nsi?nem (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendere (“to weigh”). Doublet of pensione.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: p?n'sh?n, IPA(key): /?p?n?(?)n/
Noun
pension (plural pensions)
- An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. [from 16th c.]
- Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.
- A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services. [from 17th c.]
- A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not (John Irving).
- (obsolete) A wage or fee. [14th-19th c.]
- (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax. [14th-17th c.]
- A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
- (now historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Synonyms
- (regularly paid gratuity): superannuation
- (boarding house): hotel, hostel, (informal) bed and breakfast, See Thesaurus: lodging place
- (payment for accommodations): rent
Hyponyms
- (UK retirement schemes): AVC, buyout policy, FSAVC, GPP, GSHP, GSIPP, personal pension, retirement annuity contract, S2P, SERPS, SIPP, SSAS, stakeholder pension
- (boarding house): bed-and-breakfast, half-pension, full-pension
Derived terms
Coordinate terms
- (boarding house): inn, motel, hotel, board, half-board, full-board
Translations
Verb
pension (third-person singular simple present pensions, present participle pensioning, simple past and past participle pensioned)(transitive)
- (transitive) To grant a pension to.
- (transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
Synonyms
- (to force to retire): pension off
Derived terms
- pensionable
Translations
Anagrams
- nosepin
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French pension, itself from Latin pensio (“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendere (“to weigh, pay”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pension n (plural pensions, diminutive pensionnetje n)
- A pension, boarding house
- A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments
- The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals
Derived terms
- pensionboerderij
- pensiongast m
- pensionhouder m
- half pension n
- vol pension n
Related terms
- pensionaat n
- pensionair m
- pensionaris m
Esperanto
Noun
pension
- accusative singular of pensio
French
Etymology
From Old French pension, panssion, borrowed from Latin p?nsi?, p?nsi?nem (“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pend? (“weigh, pay”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.sj??/
Noun
pension f (plural pensions)
- A pension, regularly received payment
- A pension, boarding house
- A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments (notably schools)
- board; (The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals)
Derived terms
- demi-pension
- fonds de pension
- pension alimentaire
- pensionner
- pensionnaire m
- pensionnat m
- pensionné m
- pension alimentaire
- pension d'état
- pension de retraite
- Greek: ??????? f (pansión, “pension”)
Further reading
- “pension” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- épinons, peinons, pionnes
Old French
Noun
pension f (oblique plural pensions, nominative singular pension, nominative plural pensions)
- Alternative form of panssion
Romanian
Etymology
From French pension.
Noun
pension n (plural pensioane)
- boarding school
Declension
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pan??u?n/
Noun
pension c
- pension, retirement
- pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
- pension, accommodation
Declension
Related terms
See also
- änkekassa
- pantertant
- passion
- pupillkassa
Anagrams
- pionens, spionen
Venetian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin p?nsi?, p?nsi?nem. Compare Italian pensione
Noun
pension f (invariable)
- pension
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redundance
English
Etymology
From Latin redundantia.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???d?nd?ns/
Noun
redundance (countable and uncountable, plural redundances)
- (now rare) Redundancy.
- , vol.I, New York 2001, p.236:
- Phlebotomy, many times neglected, may do much harm to the body, when there is a manifest redundance of bad humours and melancholy blood […]
- , vol.I, New York 2001, p.236:
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