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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. examples
(obsolete) A wage or fee.
(obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes. examples
(now historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.
third-person singular simple present pensions, present participle pensioning, simple past and past participle pensioned
(transitive) To grant a pension to. examples
(transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension. examples
A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services. quotations examples
A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not
1978, John Irving, The World According to Garp
(obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.