Synonyms for pension
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pen-shuh n; French pahn-syawn for 3 |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛn ʃən; French pɑ̃ˈsyɔ̃ for 3 |
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Définition of pension
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.
- noun benefits paid after retirement
- The practical result of the Ode was a pension of 200 a year conferred on him by Queen Anne.
- Extract from : « Handel » by Edward J. Dent
- I had no thought of this pension, at all, in coming up to town.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- This was the last I had seen of my ticket, and almost the last I had thought of my pension.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Sir William's pension of L1200 a year ceased with his death.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- He's got one eye out; lost it lookin' fer a pension, I believe.
- Extract from : « Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre Stories » by Cal Stewart
- In his later years a pension of two hundred pounds was granted him.
- Extract from : « Graded Poetry: Second Year » by Various
- Why, I've got nothing but my pension and three thousand India stock!
- Extract from : « Joy (First Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
- Burke's quarrel with Hamilton ended in his resigning his pension.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 » by Various
- The king and court would see him and hear his story, and gave him a pension.
- Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
- Was in the army long enough to get a pension of ninepence a day.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
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