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# pension

«pension» in Mova's school dictionary: **money paid regularly to someone who has retired, from the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#m1)

2) A pension can be money paid to someone who is ill, disabled or widowed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#m2)

3) (in Europe) A pension (said «pon-see-on») can be a small family hotel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#m3)

4) (verb) To pension someone off is to make them retire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x1)
- She saved into a pension while she worked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x2)
- The state pension helps older people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x3)
- If the pension is $1,000 a month, it is $12,000 a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x4)
- My nan collects her pension at the post office. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x5)
- (UK, informal) The old horse was pensioned off to a farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x6)
- It was a most respectable old lamp, which had seen many, many years of service, and now was to retire with a pension. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/16/)
- [A payslip shows what you earned and what was taken off, such as tax and pension, before the rest reached your bank.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/9/)
- [Tax pays for schools, hospitals and roads; a pension is money saved for when you are old.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/10/)
- ["Entitlement reform" means cutting pensions and welfare (US).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/13/)
- [Tax and pension payments are taken from pay before it arrives; what is left is called take-home pay.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pension» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pension/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.