- a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
- an allowance, annuity, or subsidy.
- (in France and elsewhere in continental Europe)
- a boardinghouse or small hotel.
- room and board.
- to grant or pay a pension to.
- to cause to retire on a pension (usually followed by off).
- a regular payment made by the state to people over a certain age to enable them to subsist without having to work
- a regular payment made by an employer to former employees after they retire
- a regular payment made to a retired person as the result of his or her contributions to a personal pension scheme
- any regular payment made on charitable grounds, by way of patronage, or in recognition of merit, service, etc
- to grant a pension to
- a relatively cheap boarding house
- another name for full board
