Pension
['penʃ(ə)n] or ['pɛnʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working.
(verb.) grant a pension to.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Allowance (from a government for past services), annuity.
Editor: Solomon
Definition
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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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of drawing a pension, foretells that you will be aided in your labors by friends. To fail in your application for a pension, denotes that you will lose in an undertaking and suffer the loss of friendships.
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Examples
- This loom was personally inspected by Napoleon, who rewarded the inventor with honours and a pension. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He knew Vevay well, and as soon as the boat touched the little quay, he hurried along the shore to La Tour, where the Carrols were living en pension. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mr. Ronalds has since received a small pension, not however as a reward for his ingenious telegraph invention, but for his services in other departments of science. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- His pension was due. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In any country in a wholesome state, Volumnia would be a clear case for the pension list. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Prince was so much pleased with the invention and ingenuity of Furnace and Ashton, that he granted them a pension for their lives of ￡70 a year each. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The pension from each family for the education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor's officers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- With pensions! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He is very good to his poor relations: pensions several of the women, and is educating a young fellow at a good deal of expense. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here, as at Paris, Becky was a boarding-house queen, and ruled in select pensions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She is grateful to the artists that bring to her this high credit and fill her coffers with foreign money, and so she encourages them with pensions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I must not at least sink into the degradation of being pensioned for work that I never achieved. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On the Tuesday as it might be, Sir John says, My lady, the bailiff is pensioned liberally; and Gabriel Betteredge has got his place. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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