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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pension \Pen"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. pensio a paying, payment, fr.
pendere, pensum, to weight, to pay; akin to pend?re to hang.
See Pendant, and cf. Spend.]
1. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [Obs.]
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The stomach's pension, and the time's expense.
--Sylvester.
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2. 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; also, 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.
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To all that kept the city pensions and wages. --1
Esd. iv. 56.
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3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of
tithes. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.
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4. [F., pronounced ?.] A boarding house or boarding school in
France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pension \Pen"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pensioned; p. pr. &
vb. n. Pensioning.]
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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One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles.
--Pope.
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WordNet pension
n : a regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow
them to subsist without working
v : grant a pension to [syn: pension off]

Moby Dictionary
aid , alimony , allotment , allowance , annuity , assistance , benefit ,
boardinghouse , bounty , depletion allowance , dismiss , dole , dorm ,
dormitory , doss house , fellowship , financial assistance , fleabag ,
flophouse , grant , grant-in-aid , guaranteed annual income ,
guest house , help , hospice , hostel , hostelry , hotel , inn ,
lodging house , old-age insurance , ordinary , pecuniary aid ,
pension off , posada , price support , pub , public , public assistance ,
public house , public welfare , relief , retirement benefits ,
roadhouse , rooming house , scholarship , shelve , social security ,
stipend , subsidization , subsidy , subsistence , subvention ,
superannuate , superannuation , support , tavern , tax benefit ,
welfare , welfare aid , welfare payments