Pension

['penʃ(ə)n] or ['pɛnʃən]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working.

(verb.) grant a pension to.

卡莱尔編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.

(n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

(v. t.) 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.

哈迪編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Allowance (from a government for past services), annuity.

手打:所罗门

解釋/意思:

n. a stated allowance to a person for past services performed by himself or by some relative: a payment made to a person retired from service on account of age or weakness: a boarding-school or boarding-house on the Continent (pron. pong-siong′): a sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.—v.t. to grant a pension to.—adjs. Pen′sionable entitled or entitling to a pension; Pen′sionary receiving a pension: consisting of a pension.—n. one who receives a pension: the syndic or legal adviser of a Dutch town.—ns. Pen′sioner one who receives a pension: a dependent: one who pays out of his own income for his commons chambers &c. at Cambridge University=an Oxford commoner; Pen′sionnaire.—Grand pensionary the president of the States-general of Holland.

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