# pension
## English
### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: pĕn'shən, IPA: /ˈpɛnʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnʃən

#### Noun

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.]

##### Synonyms

* (regularly paid gratuity): superannuation
* (payment for accommodations): rent

##### Hyponyms

* (UK retirement schemes): AVC, buyout policy, FSAVC, GPP, GSHP, GSIPP, personal pension, retirement annuity contract, S2P, SERPS, SIPP, SSAS, stakeholder pension

##### Derived terms

* full pension
* old age pension
* pensionary
* pension book
* pensioner
* pension fund
* pension house
* pensionless
* pension plan
* preserved pension
* top-hat pension

##### Descendants

* → Irish: pinsean

##### Translations
#### Verb

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.

##### Synonyms

* (to force to retire): pension off

##### Derived terms

* pensionable

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From French pension, from Old French pencion, as etymology 1 above. Doublet of pensione.

#### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /pɑ̃ˈsjɔ̃/, /pɑnˈsjoʊn/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɒ̃sjɒ̃/
* Rhymes: -əʊn

#### Noun

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.]
** 1978, John Irving, The World According to Garp:A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not
* (obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

##### Synonyms

* hotel, hostel, (informal) bed and breakfast, See Thesaurus: lodging place

##### Hyponyms

* bed and breakfast, half-pension, full-pension

##### Coordinate terms

* inn, motel, hotel, board, half-board, full-board

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* nosepin

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* pensionboerderij
* pensiongast m
* pensionhouder m
* half pension n
* vol pension n

#### Related terms

* pensionaat n
* pensionair m
* pensionaris m

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: pènsiun

## Esperanto
### Noun

pension
* accusative singular of pensio

## Estonian
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pˈenʲsion/
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### Noun

pension (genitive pensioni, partitive pensioni or pensionit)
* pension
    riiklik pension ― state pension

#### Derived terms

* pensioniiga
* rahvapension
* toitjakaotuspension
* töövõimetuspension
* vanaduspension

### Further reading

* “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)

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French pension, panssion, borrowed from Latin pēnsiōnem (“payment, rent”), from pensus, the past participle of pendō (“weigh, pay”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɑ̃.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pension f (plural pensions)
* a pension, regularly received payment
    pension à taux pleinfull 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)

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

* 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)

### Further reading

* “pension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* épinons, peinons, pionnes

## Middle English
### Noun

pension
* Alternative form of pencioun

## Old French
### Noun

pension oblique singular, f (oblique plural pensions, nominative singular pension, nominative plural pensions)
* Alternative form of panssion

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French pension.

### Noun

pension n (plural pensioane)
* boarding school

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /panˈɧuːn/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pension c
* pension, retirement
    att gå i pensionto retire
* pension, periodic payments from a retirement fund
* pension (a type of accommodation)

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | pension | pensions |
| singular | definite | pensionen | pensionens |
| plural | indefinite | pensioner | pensioners |
| plural | definite | pensionerna | pensionernas |

#### Related terms

* folkpension
* förtidspension
* halvpension
* helpension
* pang
* pensionat
* pensionera
* pensionsfond
* pensionskassa
* pensionsmässig
* pensionsutbetalning
* pensionsålder
* pensionär
* premiepension
* sjukpension
* tilläggspension
* tjänstepension
* ålderspension

#### See also

* änkekassa
* pantertant
* passion
* pupillkassa

### Anagrams

* pionens, spionen

## Venetan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pēnsiō, pēnsiōnem. Compare Italian pensione.

### Noun

pension f (invariable)
* pension