Usually means: Income received after retirement regularly.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pension: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pension: Merriam-Webster
  3. pension, pension: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pension, pension: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pension: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pension: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pension, pension: Wordnik
  8. pension: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pension: Wiktionary
  10. pension: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pension: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pension: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pension: Dictionary.com
  14. pension: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pension: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pension (lodging), Pension (lodgings), Pension: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pension: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pension: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pension: Rhymezone
  20. Pension (f), pension, pension (f), pension (het), pensin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pension: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pension: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pension: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pension: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. pension: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. PENSION: Accounting Glossary
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. MSN Money (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Pension (United States), pension: Legal dictionary
  11. Pension (United States), Pension: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  13. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pension (United States), pension: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pension (military): Genealogy Glossary
  2. pension: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pension: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See pensioned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (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.
noun:  (obsolete) A wage or fee.
noun:  (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
noun:  A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
noun:  (now historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.
verb:  (transitive) To grant a pension to.
verb:  (transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
noun:  A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
noun:  (obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

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