pension
part of speech
noun (a pension, pensions); verb (pension off)
meaning for a pupil
1) A pension is money paid regularly to someone who has retired, from the government or a former employer. tree →
2) A pension can be money paid to someone who is ill, disabled or widowed. tree →
3) (in Europe) A pension (said «pon-see-on») can be a small family hotel. tree →
4) (verb) To pension someone off is to make them retire. tree →
sense 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 →
- She saved into a pension while she worked. tree →
- The state pension helps older people. tree →
- If the pension is $1,000 a month, it is $12,000 a year. tree →
- My nan collects her pension at the post office. tree →
- (UK, informal) The old horse was pensioned off to a farm. tree →
- It was a most respectable old lamp, which had seen many, many years of service, and now was to retire with a pension. tree →
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».
In the corpora
- Retiring means stopping paid work for good, usually in your sixties, and living on a pension and savings.
- A payslip shows what you earned and what was taken off, such as tax and pension, before the rest reached your bank.
- Tax pays for schools, hospitals and roads; a pension is money saved for when you are old.
- "Entitlement reform" means cutting pensions and welfare (US).
- Tax and pension payments are taken from pay before it arrives; what is left is called take-home pay.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pension» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.