Antonyms for pensioning
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : pen-shuh n; French pahn-syawn for 3 |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛn ʃən; French pɑ̃ˈsyɔ̃ for 3 |
Definition of pensioning
Origin :- mid-14c., "payment for services," especially "reward, payment out of a benefice" (early 14c., in Anglo-Latin), from Old French pension "payment, rent" (13c.) and directly from Latin pensionem (nominative pensio) "a payment, installment, rent," from past participle stem of pendere "pay, weigh" (see pendant). Meaning "regular payment in consideration of past service" first recorded 1520s. Meaning "boarding house, boarding school" first attested 1640s, from French, and usually in reference to places in France or elsewhere on the Continent.
- As in pink-slip : verb dismiss
- As in superannuate : verb retire
- As in dismiss : verb remove from job, responsibility
- I would give anything to have a decent excuse for pensioning him off.
- Extract from : « Barren Honour: A Novel » by George A. Lawrence
- This seems to be a kindly way of pensioning off an old parish chaplain.
- Extract from : « Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England » by Edward L. Cutts
- Surely it may be claimed for our brave fellows that a more liberal system of pensioning be adopted.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 » by Various
- This habit of pensioning officials, as well as musicians and poets, is very agreeable to the Germans.
- Extract from : « Saunterings » by Charles Dudley Warner
- The pensioning of the youth is really more dangerous than to pension age.
- Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) » by Elbert Hubbard
- The obligation to provide corrodies for royal nominees pressed more heavily than the duty of pensioning royal clerks.
- Extract from : « Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 » by Eileen Edna Power
- The new emperor showed himself more merciful, by pensioning instead of destroying his unfortunate foes.
- Extract from : « Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
- Pensioning off his other wife, he took the young girl himself and sold the mother to the local chief for a ton of copra.
- Extract from : « The Ebbing Of The Tide » by Louis Becke
- Pensioning, never justifiable except in special exigencies, becomes the rule.
- Extract from : « The Galaxy, June 1877 » by Various
- He began his reign by providing for old friends,—pensioning some and placing others in lucrative offices.
- Extract from : « Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. III. (of III) » by Rosalie Kaufman
Synonyms for pensioning
- absent oneself
- ax
- boot
- boot out
- bounce
- bump
- can
- cashier
- decamp
- defrock
- deny oneself
- depart
- depone
- depose
- deselect
- discharge
- disemploy
- disfrock
- displace
- disqualify
- draw back
- drop
- ebb
- exit
- fall back
- fire
- furlough
- get away
- get off
- give ground
- give notice to
- give someone his or her walking papers
- give someone the ax
- give someone the gate
- give someone the pink slip
- give the ax
- give the gate
- give the heave-ho
- give up work
- give walking papers
- give warning
- give way
- go
- go away
- go to bed
- go to one's room
- go to sleep
- hand over
- hit the sack
- impeach
- kick out
- lay off
- leave service
- let go
- let out
- make vacant
- oust
- part
- pension
- pink-slip
- pull back
- pull out
- put away
- put out to pasture
- recall
- recede
- regress
- release
- relinquish
- remove
- repeal
- rescind
- resign
- retire
- retreat
- revoke
- run along
- rusticate
- sack
- secede
- seclude oneself
- send packing
- separate
- sever connections
- shelve
- show someone the door
- shut out
- stop working
- surrender
- suspend
- take off
- terminate
- turn away
- turn in
- unfrock
- unseat
- wash out
- withdraw
- yield
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