pension

/ˈpɛnʃən/

Other forms: pensions; pensioned; pensioning

A pension is a regular payment, usually from a company you worked for, that allows you to survive without working after you retire.

In used to be common for someone to spend their entire career at one company, and then retire at 65 and receive a pension: regular payments of enough money to live on in old age. Nowadays, not that many jobs offer pensions, and it's hard for companies that do to pay for them, which is why you're likely to hear this word when people are arguing about budget cuts. It's also a verb: if you pension your employee, you give them a pension. How nice of you!

Definitions of pension

1. noun

   a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working
   types:

   old-age pension, retirement benefit, retirement check, retirement fund, retirement pension, superannuation

   a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work

   type of:

   regular payment

   a payment made at regular times
2. verb

   grant a pension to
   synonyms: pension off

   type of:

   award, grant

   give as judged due or on the basis of merit