1. pension - Noun
2. pension - Verb
A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
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; especially, 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.
A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor. Grover Cleveland
But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey. Jimmy Hoffa
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. Jonathan Swift
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair. Arthur C. Brooks
Chase your passion, not your pension. Denis Waitley
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. Jenny Joseph