PENSION
\pˈɛnʃən], \pˈɛnʃən], \p_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of PENSION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Legal Glossary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
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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.
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A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
By Oddity Software
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A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
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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.
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A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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A retirement fund for employees paid for or contributed to by some employers as part of a package of compensation for the employees' work. Pensions became widespread during the Second World War, when they were commonly used as lures because there were more jobs than workers.
By Oddity Software
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A certain sum paid regularly for past services; a regular allowance paid to one through the good will of another; a boarding house or boarding school.
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To grant a regular allowance of money to.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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