pension(n = noun.possession) - a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working;
is a kind of regular payment
has particulars: old-age pension, retirement benefit, retirement check, retirement fund, retirement pension, superannuation
Derived form verb pension₁

   pension(v = verb.possession) pension off - grant a pension to;
is one way to award, grant
Derived forms noun pension₁, noun pensionary₁, noun pensioner₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody

1.  A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [1913 Webster]
"The stomach's pension, and the time's expense." [1913 Webster]

2.  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; also, 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. [1913 Webster]
"To all that kept the city pensions and wages." [1913 Webster]

3.  A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. Mozley & W. [1913 Webster]

4.  A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc. [1913 Webster]

   To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant. [1913 Webster]
"One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles." [1913 Webster]

pension, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a regular payment made by a government to people above a specified age, to widows, or to the disabled. b similar payments made by an employer etc. on the retirement of an employee.
2 a a pension paid to a scientist, artist, etc. for services to the state, or to fund work. b any pension paid esp. by a government on charitable grounds.
--v.tr.
1 grant a pension to.
2 bribe with a pension.

Idiom:
pension off
1 dismiss with a pension.
2 cease to employ or use.

Derivative:
pensionless adj.

pension, n. a European, esp. French, boarding-house providing full or half board at a fixed rate.

Idiom:
en pension as a boarder.

Etymology:
F: see PENSION(1)

N  receipt, value received, money coming in, income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds, gross receipts, net profit, earnings, accepta, avails, rent, rent roll, rental, rentage, rack-rent, premium, bonus, sweepstakes, tontine, pension, annuity, jointure, alimony, palimony, pittance, emolument, receiving, received, profitable.

old-age pension, pension account, pension fund, pension off, pension plan, retirement pension