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# pension

noun (a pension, pensions); verb (pension off)

«pension» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A pension is money paid regularly to someone who has retired, from the government or a former employer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#m1)
2. A pension can be money paid to someone who is ill, disabled or widowed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#m2)
3. (in Europe) A pension (said «pon-see-on») can be a small family hotel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#m3)
4. (verb) To pension someone off is to make them retire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life older people live on their pension after retirement; a pensioner gets one. In maths money problems a pension is paid each week or month, so yearly pension = monthly × 12. Phrases: state pension, pension scheme, draw a pension.

### Examples

- Grandpa gets his pension every month. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x1)
- She saved into a pension while she worked. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x2)
- The state pension helps older people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x3)
- If the pension is $1,000 a month, it is $12,000 a year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x4)
- My nan collects her pension at the post office. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x5)
- (UK, informal) The old horse was pensioned off to a farm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x6)
- It was a most respectable old lamp, which had seen many, many years of service, and now was to retire with a pension. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x7)

### Note

Countable. A person who gets one is a pensioner; an «old-age pensioner» (OAP) in the UK. Do not confuse with «tension» or «pensive».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pension» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pension» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pension.html) on Mova free.