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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/
• 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.]
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

Borrowed from French pension, itself from Latin pensio (“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendere (“to weigh, pay”).

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/

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)

• demi-pension
• fonds de pension
• pension alimentaire
• pensionner
• pensionnaire m
• pensionnat m
• pensionné m
• pension alimentaire
• pension d’état
• pension de retraite

• 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/

pension c

1. pension, retirement

   att gå i pension

   to retire

2. pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
3. pension (a type of accommodation)

• änkekassa
• pantertant
• passion
• pupillkassa

• pionens, spionen

Borrowed from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem. Compare Italian pensione.

pension f (invariable)

1. pension