pension

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. [from 16th c.]

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

2. (obsolete) A wage or fee. [14th–19th c.]
3. (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax. [14th–17th c.]
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. [from 16th c.]

• (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. [from 17th c.]
   • 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

From French pension, from Latin pensio.

pension c (singular definite pensionen, plural indefinite pensioner)

1. a pension, boarding house
2. pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
3. lodging and meals that is provided by such places

• pensionat
• pensionær

• “pension” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

Ultimately from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /pˈenʲsion/

pension (genitive pensioni, partitive pensioni or pensionit)

1. pension

   riiklik pension ― state pension

Declension of pension (ÕS type 19/seminar, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		pension	pensionid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	pensioni
genitive			pensionide
partitive		pensioni	pensione pensionisid
illative		pensioni pensionisse	pensionidesse pensionesse
inessive		pensionis	pensionides pensiones
elative		pensionist	pensionidest pensionest
allative		pensionile	pensionidele pensionele
adessive		pensionil	pensionidel pensionel
ablative		pensionilt	pensionidelt pensionelt
translative		pensioniks	pensionideks pensioneks
terminative		pensionini	pensionideni
essive		pensionina	pensionidena
abessive		pensionita	pensionideta
comitative		pensioniga	pensionidega

Declension of pension (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		pension	pensionid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	pensioni
genitive			pensionite
partitive		pensionit	pensioneid
illative		pensionisse	pensionitesse pensioneisse
inessive		pensionis	pensionites pensioneis
elative		pensionist	pensionitest pensioneist
allative		pensionile	pensionitele pensioneile
adessive		pensionil	pensionitel pensioneil
ablative		pensionilt	pensionitelt pensioneilt
translative		pensioniks	pensioniteks pensioneiks
terminative		pensionini	pensioniteni
essive		pensionina	pensionitena
abessive		pensionita	pensioniteta
comitative		pensioniga	pensionitega

• “pension”, in [EKSS] 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)

• 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 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. retirement (from work)

   att gå i pension

   to retire

   se fram emot pensionen

   look forward to retirement

2. pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund

   Hon får 20 000 kronor i pension före skatt

   She receives a [monthly implied] pre-tax pension of 20,000 kronor

   (literally, “She gets 20,000 kronor in pension before tax”)

3. pension (a type of accommodation)

• änkekassa
• pantertant
• passion
• pupillkassa

• pension in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pension in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pension in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• pionens, spionen

Borrowed from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem. Compare Italian pensione.

pension f (invariable)

1. pension