[ˈpɛnʃn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a regular payment made by the state to people of or above the official retirement age and to some widows and disabled people
(e.g: men can draw a pension from the age of sixty-five)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘payment, tax, regular sum paid to retain allegiance’): from Old French, from Latin pensio(n-) ‘payment’, from pendere ‘to pay’. The current verb sense dates from the mid 19th century

[ˈpɛnʃn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- dismiss someone from employment, typically because of age or ill health, and pay them a pension
(e.g: he was pensioned off from the army after the war)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘payment, tax, regular sum paid to retain allegiance’): from Old French, from Latin pensio(n-) ‘payment’, from pendere ‘to pay’. The current verb sense dates from the mid 19th century

[ˈpɒ̃sjɒ̃], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a small hotel or boarding house in France and other European countries


Phrases:

Origin:
French