amerikai:
brit:
1. 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.
Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.
2. A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not (John Irving).
3. A wage or fee.
4. A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
5. A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
6. A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.
7. A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
1. To grant a pension to.
2. To force (someone) to retire on a pension.