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PENSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("pension" is a kind of...):
regular payment (a payment made at regular times)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pension"):
old-age pension; retirement benefit; retirement check; retirement fund; retirement pension; superannuation (a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work)
Derivation:
pension (grant a pension to)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they pension ... he / she / it pensions
Past simple: pensioned
Past participle: pensioned
-ing form: pensioning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grant a pension to
Synonyms:
pension; pension off
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "pension" is one way to...):
award; grant (give as judged due or on the basis of merit)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
pension (a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working)
pensionary; pensioner (the beneficiary of a pension fund)
