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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”).
pension (plural pensions)
- (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.
- (obsolete) A wage or fee. [14th–19th c.]
- (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax. [14th–17th c.]
- A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
- (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
regular payment due to a person in consideration of past services
- Arabic: مَعَاش m (maʕāš)
- Egyptian Arabic: معاش m (maʕāš)
- Armenian: թոշակ (hy) (tʻošak), կենսաթոշակ (hy) (kensatʻošak)
- Azerbaijani: pensiya, təqaüd (az)
- Bashkir: хаҡлы ял (xaqlı yal)
- Belarusian: пе́нсія f (pjénsija), пэ́нсія f (pénsija)
- Bengali: পেনশন (bn) (penośon)
- Bulgarian: пе́нсия f (pénsija)
- Burmese: ပင်စင် (my) (pangcang)
- Catalan: pensió (ca) f
- Central Melanau: pencen
- Chinese:
- Czech: důchod (cs) m, penze (cs) f
- Danish: pension c
- Dutch: pensioen (nl) n, pension (nl) n
- Esperanto: pensio (eo)
- Estonian: pension (et)
- Faroese: eftirløn f
- Finnish: eläke (fi)
- French: pension (fr) f, retraite (fr) f
- Georgian: პენსია (ṗensia)
- German: Pension (de) f (public service), Rente (de) f
- Greek: σύνταξη (el) f (sýntaxi)
- Gujarati: બેઠો પગાર m (beṭho pagār), નિવૃત્તિવેતન n (nivŕttivetan), વિશ્રામવેતન n (viśrāmvetan), વાર્ધક્યવૃત્તિ f (vārdhakyavŕtti), જરાજીવિકા f (jarājīvikā), પેન્શન n (penśan), જરાવેતન m (jarāvetan), વૃદ્ધવૃત્તિ f (vŕddhavŕtti), ભૃતકસહાય f (bhŕtkashāya)
- Hebrew: פֶּנְסִיָּה (he) f (pénsya)
- Hindi: पेंशन (hi) f (penśan)
- Hungarian: nyugdíj (hu)
- Indonesian: pensiun (id)
- Irish: pinsean
- Italian: pensione (it) f, assegno (it) m
- Japanese: 年金 (ja) (ねんきん, nenkin)
- Kazakh: зейнетақы (zeinetaqy)
- Khmer: សោធន (km) (saothŭən)
- Korean: 연금(年金) (ko) (yeon'geum), 년금(年金) (ko) (nyeon'geum) (North Korea)
- Kyrgyz: бааракы (baarakı), пенсия (pensiya)
- Lao: ບຳນານ (bam nān)
- Latin: annuum n
- Latvian: pensija f
- Lithuanian: pensija f
- Macedonian: пензија f (penzija)
- Malay: pencen (Malay Peninsular), pensiun (Riau Islands)
- Malayalam: പെൻഷൻ (peṉṣaṉ), അടുത്തൂൺ (ml) (aṭuttūṇ)
- Maori: penihana
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian: pensjon (no) m
- Ottoman Turkish: اوتراق (ōturāq)
- Persian: مستمری (fa) (mostamerri), حقوق بازنشستگی (hoquq-e bâz-nešastegi)
- Polish: emerytura (pl) f
- Portuguese: pensão (pt) f, aposentadoria (pt) f
- Romanian: pensie (ro) f
- Russian: пе́нсия (ru) f (pénsija), посо́бие (ru) n (posóbije) (gratuity, benefit)
- Scottish Gaelic: peinnsean m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: dôchodok m, penzia f
- Slovene: pokojnina f
- Spanish: pensión (es) f
- Swedish: pension (sv) c
- Tajik: нафака (nafaka), нафақа (nafaqa)
- Tamil: ஓய்வூதியம் (ta) (ōyvūtiyam)
- Thai: บำนาญ (th) (bam-naan)
- Turkish: emeklilik (tr), emekli maaşı (tr)
- Turkmen: pensiýa
- Ukrainian: пе́нсія f (pénsija)
- Urdu: پینشن f (penśan)
- Uyghur: نەپىقە (nepiqe)
- Uzbek: pensiya (uz), nafaqa (uz)
- Vietnamese: hưu bổng (vi) (休俸), lương hưu (糧休)
- Yoruba: owó ìfẹ̀yìntì
pension (third-person singular simple present pensions, present participle pensioning, simple past and past participle pensioned)
- (transitive) To grant a pension to.
- (transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
- (to force to retire): pension off
to grant a pension
- Bulgarian: отпускам пенсия (otpuskam pensija)
- Catalan: pensionar (ca)
- Dutch: pensioneren (nl), een pensioen verlenen
- Finnish: myöntää eläke
- French: pensioner (fr), pensionner (fr)
- Greek: συνταξιοδοτώ (el) (syntaxiodotó)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: pensjonere
- Nynorsk: pensjonere
- Portuguese: pensionar
- Spanish: pensionar (es)
to force to retire
- Bulgarian: пенсионирам (pensioniram)
- Dutch: pensioneren (nl), met pensioen sturen
- Finnish: siirtää eläkkeelle
- German: pensionieren (public service), in den Ruhestand versetzen
- Greek: συνταξιοδοτώ (el) (syntaxiodotó)
- Hebrew: גמלה (he) (gimlah)
- Italian: pensionare (it)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: pensjonere
- Nynorsk: pensjonere
- Portuguese: aposentar (pt)
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)
- A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services. [from 17th c.]
- (obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
- hotel, hostel, (informal) bed and breakfast, See Thesaurus: lodging place
- inn, motel, hotel, board, half-board, full-board
boarding house
- Arabic: بَنْسِيُون m (bansiyūn)
- Egyptian Arabic: بنسيون m (bansiyon)
- Belarusian: пансіяна́т m (pansijanát), пансiён m (pansijón)
- Bulgarian: пансио́н (bg) m (pansión)
- Catalan: pensió (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: penzion (cs) m
- Dutch: pension (nl) n
- Esperanto: pensiono
- Finnish: matkakoti, majatalo (fi)
- French: pension (fr) f
- Georgian: პანსიონატი (ṗansionaṭi), პანსიონი (ṗansioni)
- German: Pension (de) f
- Greek: πανσιόν (el) f (pansión), οικοτροφείο (el) n (oikotrofeío)
- Hungarian: panzió (hu)
- Italian: pensione (it) f
- Japanese: ペンション (ja) (penshon), 寄宿舎 (ja) (きしゅくしゃ, kishukusha), 下宿屋 (げしゅくや, geshakuya)
- Korean: 펜션 (pensyeon), 하숙집 (ko) (hasukjip)
- Macedonian: пансио́н m (pansión)
- Norwegian: pensjonat (no) n
- Polish: pensjonat (pl) m
- Portuguese: pensão (pt) f
- Russian: пансиона́т (ru) m (pansionát), пансио́н (ru) m (pansión)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: penzión m
- Slovene: penzion m
- Spanish: pensión (es) f
- Swedish: pensionat (sv) n
- Thai: หอพัก (hɔ̌ɔ-pák)
- Ukrainian: пансіона́т m (pansionát), пансіо́н m (pansión)
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)
- a pension, boarding house
- a regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments
- the services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals
- pensionaat n
- pensionair m
- pensionaris m
- → Indonesian: pènsiun
pension
- accusative singular of pensio
Ultimately from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem.
pension (genitive pensioni, partitive pensioni or pensionit)
Declension of pension (ÕS type 19/seminar, no gradation) | ||
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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”).
pension f (plural pensions)
- a pension, regularly received payment
pension à taux plein
- full pension
- a pension, boarding house
- a regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments (notably schools)
- 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:
- → Ukrainian: пансіо́н (pansión)
- “pension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
pension
- Alternative form of pencioun
pension oblique singular, f (oblique plural pensions, nominative singular pension, nominative plural pensions)
- Alternative form of panssion
pension n (plural pensioane)
pension c
- pension, retirement
att gå i pension
- to retire
- pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
- pension (a type of accommodation)
Borrowed from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem. Compare Italian pensione.
pension f (invariable)