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Meaning of pension in English
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Verb
pension
Definitions
1.
grant a pension to
Noun
pension
Etymology
late Middle English (in the sense ‘payment, tax, regular sum paid to retain allegiance’): from Old French, from Latin pensio(n-) ‘payment’, from pendere‘to pay’. The current verb sense dates from the mid 19th century
Definitions
1.
a regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow them to subsist without working