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English

Etymology

pension +? -ary

Noun

pensionary (plural pensionaries)

1. one who receives a pension; a pensioner
2. (historical) A leading functionary and legal adviser of the principal town corporations in the Netherlands.

Adjective

pensionary (not comparable)

1. maintained by a pension; receiving a pension
   • 1633, John Donne, Elegy I: Jealousy

     pensionary spies

2. pertaining to a pension

   a pensionary provision for maintenance

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)

1. 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.

2. 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).

3. (obsolete) A wage or fee. [14th-19th c.]
4. (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax. [14th-17th c.]
5. A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
6. (now historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar. [from 16th c.]
7. (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)

1. (transitive) To grant a pension to.
2. (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)

1. A pension, boarding house
2. A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments
3. 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

1. 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)

1. A pension, regularly received payment

2. A pension, boarding house
3. A regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments (notably schools)
4. 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)

1. Alternative form of panssion

Romanian

Etymology

From French pension.

Noun

pension n (plural pensioane)

1. boarding school

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan??u?n/

Noun

pension c

1. pension, retirement

2. pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
3. 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)

1. pension