pension

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pension and pension (lodging)

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From Middle English pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”).

• enPR: pĕn'shən, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnʃən

pension (plural pensions)

1. (finance) 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.

   Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.

2. (obsolete) A wage or fee.
3. (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
4. A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
5. (now historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.

• (regularly paid gratuity): superannuation
• (payment for accommodations): rent

• (UK retirement schemes): AVC, buyout policy, FSAVC, GPP, GSHP, GSIPP, personal pension, retirement annuity contract, S2P, SERPS, SIPP, SSAS, stakeholder pension

• → Irish: pinsean

pension (third-person singular simple present pensions, present participle pensioning, simple past and past participle pensioned)

1. (transitive) To grant a pension to.
2. (transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.

• (to force to retire): pension off

• pensionable

From French pension, from Old French pencion, as etymology 1 above. Doublet of pensione.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑ̃ˈsjɔ̃/, /pɑnˈsjoʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒ̃sjɒ̃/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

pension (plural pensions)

1. A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
   • 1978, John Irving, The World According to Garp:

     A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not

2. (obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

• hotel, hostel, (informal) bed and breakfast, See Thesaurus: lodging place

• bed and breakfast, half-pension, full-pension

• inn, motel, hotel, board, half-board, full-board

• nosepin

Borrowed from French pension, itself from Latin pensio (“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendere (“to weigh, pay”).

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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

• pensionboerderij
• pensiongast m
• pensionhouder m
• half pension n
• vol pension n

• pensionaat n
• pensionair m
• pensionaris m

• → Indonesian: pènsiun

pension

1. accusative singular of pensio

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

pension

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Ultimately from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /pˈenʲsion/

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pension (genitive pensioni, partitive pensioni or pensionit)

1. pension

   riiklik pension ― state pension

• “pension”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “pension”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• pension in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Inherited from Old French pension, panssion, borrowed from Latin pēnsiōnem (“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendō (“weigh, pay”).

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.sjɔ̃/

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pension f (plural pensions)

1. a pension, regularly received payment

   pension à taux plein

   full pension

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)

• demi-pension
• fonds de pension
• pension alimentaire
• pensionner
• pensionnaire m
• pensionnat m
• pensionné m
• pension alimentaire
• pension d’état
• pension de retraite

• Haitian Creole: pansyon
• → Belarusian: пансiён (pansijón), пансыён (pansyjón)
• → Bulgarian: пансион (pansion)
• → German: Pension
• → Greek: πανσιόν (pansión)
• → Macedonian: пансио́н (pansión)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پانسیون
  • Turkish: pansiyon
• → Romanian: pension
• → Russian: пансио́н (pansión)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: пансѝо̄н

  Latin script: pansìōn

• → Ukrainian: пансіо́н (pansión)

• “pension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• épinons, peinons, pionnes

pension

1. Alternative form of pencioun

pension oblique singular, f (oblique plural pensions, nominative singular pension, nominative plural pensions)

1. Alternative form of panssion

Borrowed from French pension.

pension n (plural pensioane)

1. boarding school

• IPA^(key): /panˈɧuːn/

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pension c

1. pension, retirement

   att gå i pension

   to retire

2. pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
3. pension (a type of accommodation)

• änkekassa
• pantertant
• passion
• pupillkassa

• pionens, spionen

Borrowed from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem. Compare Italian pensione.

pension f (invariable)

1. pension