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pensionn.

Brit. /ˈpɛnʃn/, U.S. /ˈpɛnʃ(ə)n/ (also in sense 7c)Brit. /ˈpɒ̃sjɒ̃/, U.S. /ˌpɑnsiˈɑn/
Forms: Middle English pencioun, Middle English pencyone, Middle English pencyown, Middle English penschyn, Middle English pensioun, Middle English pensiown, Middle English pensyne, Middle English pensyone, Middle English–1600s pencyon, Middle English–1600s pensyon, Middle English–1700s pencion, Middle English– pension, 1500s–1700s pention, 1600s penccon, 1600s penson, 1900s– pansion (in sense 7c), 1900s– pensión (in sense 7c); Scottish pre-1700 penchione, pre-1700 penchioun, pre-1700 pencion, pre-1700 penschioun, pre-1700 pensieoun, pre-1700 pensione, pre-1700 pensioun, pre-1700 pensioune, pre-1700 pensiowne, pre-1700 penssioune, pre-1700 penssoine, pre-1700 pensyoun, pre-1700 pensyoune, pre-1700 penteoun, pre-1700 pention, pre-1700 pentioun, pre-1700 1700s– pension. N.E.D. (1905) also records forms Middle English pensone, Middle English pensyoun.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pension; Latin pēnsiōn-, pēnsiō.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman pencione, pensioun, Anglo-Norman and Middle French pencion, Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French pension payment, compensation (1216 in Old French as pensiun ), annuity (1315 in Old French; the specific sense ‘retirement pay, old age pension’ is not paralleled in French until much later), rent (1346), salary (1428), boarding house (1609), boarding school (a1615), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin pēnsiōn-, pēnsiō payment, rent, a measured weight, compensation, in post-classical Latin also interest (4th cent.), tax (4th cent.), tribute (9th cent.), annuity, salary, pension (in ecclesiastical sense from 12th cent. in continental sources, frequently a1223–1576 in British sources; also in secular sense), fixed payment made from or charged to the revenues of a benefice (frequently c1156–1565 in British sources) < pēns- , past participial stem of pendere to weigh (see pense v.1) + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare Old Occitan pensio (1482 or earlier; Occitan pension), Catalan pensió (13th cent.), Portuguese pensão (1371 as pensõões (plural)), Italian pensione (a1519), Spanish pensión (17th cent.), and also (partly via French) Middle Dutch pensioen, pencioen (Dutch pensioen), Middle Low German pēnsiōn, German Pension (beginning of the 15th cent.).In form pensión (compare quot. 1951 at sense 7c) after Spanish pensión . With sense 7 compare Middle French pension food for a person (1535) and en pension (1564 or earlier in prendre en pension to take (a person) on as a boarder); independent use of pension in sense ‘payment for board and lodging’ is later in French (1602). Sense 8 probably derives from sense 5, but the semantic development is unclear.
1.
a. Any regular payment made to a person for present services or to retain allegiance, goodwill, etc.; a stipend, wage; a fee. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > fixed or regular
pensiona1325
salary1377
feec1400
salt money1535
stipend1539
sal1844
upstanding wage1888
base pay1904
base salary1911
basic pay1916
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > payment to secure services if required
pension1549
retainer1750
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xx. 79 Ȝif prelat ipresented to ani churche askez of þe rectour þe pencion þat is to him owinde.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Paralip. xxi. 3 His fadir ȝaf to hem manye ȝiftis of gold & of seluer & pensiowns [a1425 L.V. rentis; L. pensitationes] with þe most strengþed cites in Juda.
1399 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 212 Anentis hyr [sc. the queen's] pension..yher be yher for the terme of hyr lyfyng to be raysit of the custumes of syndry bowrous.
1445 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Relig. Houses Diocese Lincoln (1919) II. 115 We inioyne and charge yow..that..ye selle, gyfe ne graunte to any persone..any corrody, lyvery, pensyone or annuytee.
1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 423 The Pencions to be paide quarterly. Imprimis to the Maire... Item for his pencion, xx.li... Item to the Recorder... Item for his pencion, x.li... Item to the Towne Clerke for his pencion, iiij.li.
1501 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 95 To Johne Steil, tailȝour, his pensioun of the Whitsonday terme bipast.
1549 H. Latimer 1st Serm. before Kynges Grace sig. Dv The vicar that serueth..hath but .xii. or .xiiii. markes by yere, so that of this pension he is not able to bie him bokes, nor geue his neighboure drincke.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Esdras iv. 56 He commanded to giue to all that kept the city, pensions and wages. View more context for this quotation
1656–7 W. Davenant First Days Entertainm. Rutland-House in Dramatic Wks. (1873) III. 226 Your servants..being confined within the narrow bounds of pension, are accomptable for all the orts by weight.
1718 J. Swift Abstr. Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1768) IV. 259 The king of England agreed to deliver him [sc. William the Lion, king of Scotland] up those twelve towns..together with a pension of twelve thousand marks.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 347 If a guinea be the weekly pension of a particular person, he can in the course of the week purchase with it a certain quantity of subsistence, conveniences, and amusements. View more context for this quotation
1824 Times 10 June 3/5 To put their mothers, sisters, [etc.] on the Factory books,..for the purpose of obtaining weekly pensions for them.
b. A regular payment made to a person of rank or a royal favourite to enable him or her to live to an expected standard. Also: a regular payment made to an artist or scholar to enable him or her to carry out work of public interest or value. Now historical.
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > periodic payment > specific
annual1388
quarterage1389
pensionc1400
pension?a1513
ladysilver1536
standing order1619
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 99 Welcum, my pensioun most preclair! Welcum, my awin lord thesaurair.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxixv If the Frenche pencions be the susteiners of the Scottishe nobilitee..then plucke away Fraunce and the courage of the nobles of Scotland shal be sone daunted.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 348 I meane, that your maiestie, of your owne accorde, giue many pensions to the maintenaunce of learning.
1672 Sir C. Lyttelton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 74 I heare my Lady Anne's pention was in ye banquiers hands.
a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) App. iv. 564 [Peter the Great] invited foreign professors not only to Petersburgh..but to his antient capital Moscow; at both which places these professors were maintained with liberal pensions.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. i. 355 He holds some lands of the King, and receives a pension besides; in return, he is answerable for the safety of travellers in the Currapa Pass.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §5. 141 A sixth of the royal revenue was wasted in pensions to foreign favourites.
1912 Catholic Encycl. XIV. 691/1 In 1516 he was granted a pension of £100 for life.
2004 Irish Times (Nexis) 26 Feb. 15 In 1835 Hamilton was knighted for his discovery and awarded a royal pension of £200.
2. Any payment made by or exacted from a person or persons; a tax, charge, price; a contribution; an expenditure. Also figurative. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [noun]
yieldc950
tollc1000
tolne1023
mailOE
lotlOE
ransomc1325
tail1340
pensiona1387
contribution1387
scat gild14..
due1423
responsionc1447
impositionc1460
devoirs1503
excisea1513
toloney1517
impost1569
cast1597
levy1640
responde1645
reprise1818
society > trade and finance > charges > [noun] > liability to pay > specific pecuniary liabilities
pensiona1387
rentcharge1394
reprise1427
quit-rent1454
rent seck1472
reprisal1622
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses
costningc1275
spense1297
costagesa1325
misesa1325
spenses1377
dispensec1380
expensesc1384
pensiona1387
costsc1390
resaillec1450
chargec1460
charges1514
outgiving1556
disbursement1607
going-outs1607
defalcation1622
outgoing1622
expense1632
outgoa1641
damage1755
outset1755
expenditure1791
outspend1859
ex1864
paid-out1883
outs1884
x's1894
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 419 (MED) Henry..made holy cherche free, but he hilde þe forest in his owne hond..he forȝaf þe grevous penciouns [L. pensiones noxias remisit].
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 397 (MED) He made hym fre of al maner of tributt & pension.
a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 31 (MED) This maner of aide..is that a kyng exercise justice aboute taxe talages and pensions vpon his subgettes.
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. B.iv He payed a bytter pencyon For mannes redemcyon.
1572 C. Carlile Disc. Peter f. 49 Paul the third pope of that name had registred fiue and forty thousand whores that payed euery moneth a pension or tribute to the pope, which did rise yerely to fortie thousand ducates.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 76 Both rich and poore by their good husbandry do gather good customes and pensions by them [sc. bees].
1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged xxxviii. §3 Humber..into which all the Riuers..emptie themselues..as into the common-storehouse of Neptune for all the watery Pensions of this Prouince.
a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 674 With some of them [sc. Arabs] he is fain to be at a Pension for the safer passage of his Caravans.
3. A one-off payment, esp. a reward. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [noun]
shipec1000
rightOE
yielda1200
hire?c1225
foryieldinga1300
tithinga1300
rentc1300
lowera1325
guerdon?a1366
recompensationa1382
retributionc1384
reward?1387
reguerdona1393
rewardon?a1400
mercimonyc1400
pensionc1400
remunerationc1400
recompensec1425
wardonc1480
salary1484
premiationa1513
requital1556
repayment1561
requite1561
renumeration1572
remisea1578
lieu1592
reguerdonment1599
gratulation1611
muneration1611
requit1786
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. viii. 47 (MED) Of princes & prelatis here pencioun [v.r. pensiones] shulde arise, And of no pore peple no peny to take.
a1475 (?1445) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 367 (MED) Heuen blisse we ane [perh. read axe] for oure pension.
4. Christian Church.
a. A fixed payment made from or charged to the revenues of a benefice; (in later use) (spec. in Anglican Church) a regular payment to a retired former incumbent (corresponding to sense 6). Now chiefly historical.Prior to the Incumbents Resignation Act of 1871, Anglican clergymen had no entitlement as of right to any kind of payment on their retirement, and the ‘pensions’ charged upon the revenues of benefices were more often paid to an ecclesiastical or feudal superior (e.g. an abbey or the Crown), than to an incumbent. During the 20th cent., pensions for retiring clergymen and their dependants were gradually introduced, and are now administered by the Church of England Pensions Board.
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > periodic payment > specific
annual1388
quarterage1389
pensionc1400
pension?a1513
ladysilver1536
standing order1619
1316 Act 9 Edw. II Stat. 1. c. 11 Pro corrodiis, pensionibus, vel prehendinationibus. [Cf. 1327 Act 1 Edw. III, Stat. ii. c. 10.]]
c1400 Last Age of Church (1840) p. xxxi (MED) Prelatis wiþ holdeþ to hem..pensiouns, firste frutis, [etc.].
1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 198/1 This present Petition..extende not..to the Provost and Collage Roial of oure Lady of Eton..in or of any maner Lordshippes, Maners..Rents, Reversions, Fermez, Pensions, Portions yeerly, Portes, Annuitees, Feefermes, [etc.].
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 153 Hit woll lyke the kynge to yeve no corodie nor pencion, wich he hath be ryght off his corowne, off euery abbey priory, and oþer howses.
c1525 Abp. Warham Let. to Wolsey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. II. 31 The value of the benefices within the diocesse of Canterburie..with portions and pensions appropried and assigned to Monasteries and other religiouse places.
1584 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 355/2 Sindry benefices..has [bene] burdenit with..giftis of pensionis of victuall or silver.
1627 W. Bedell in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 137 Pensions upon Churches, &c., granted to Religious Houses.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 344 The Pensions were but bare Penny-Rent, whilst Abbey-Lands were lowly rated farre beneath their true valuation.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Pensionary In the Romish Countries, 'tis frequent to have Pensions on Benifices.
1871 Incumbents Resignation Act (34 & 35 Vict. c. 44) s. 10 The pension so allowed shall be a charge upon the revenues of the benefice, and shall be recoverable as a debt at law or in equity from the incumbent of the said benefice by the retired clerk.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 654/1 At the Council of Chalcedon, Maximus..requested the sanction of the Fathers to his assigning a pension out of the revenues of the see sufficient for the support of Domnus.
1937 K. M. Macmorran Cripps on Church & Clergy 358 Where a retiring older incumbent holds benefices in plurality the full circumstances must be ascertained before the amount of the pension and the method of dividing the charge between the several benefices resigned and the pensions fund can be determined.
1996 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 12 July Users can find..full identification of each ecclesiastical benefice, together with a breakdown of its constituent values, for example the values of any vicarage, prebend, chapel, pension or portion.
b. A person receiving an ecclesiastical pension; = pensioner n. 2b. Obsolete. rare.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > one who possesses
possessioner1395
incumbent1425
pensioner1500
possessionarya1533
pensionary1536
pension1544
beneficer1621
beneficiary1641
1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Cv The greate burden wherwith this your realme..is ouercharged through the greate multytude of chauntery prestes, soule prestes,..muncke pencyons, morowe mas prestes.
5. A periodical payment levied upon each member of any of the Inns of Court or Chancery in London, or of the King's Inn in Dublin. Now historical.In the Black Book of Lincoln's Inn from 1433. Pensions were used to defray the standing charges of an Inn, such as maintenance and repair of buildings and gardens, salaries of officers, wages of servants, etc.
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > bearing of expenses or charges > of maintenance or upkeep
maintaininga1387
maintenance1389
supportation1421
pension1431
maintain1483
society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > share contributed by individual > by member of guild, union, or society
pension1431
levy1640
pension money1663
1431 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 275 (MED) At ech of these ij morowe spechis, euery brothir and sustir schall payen to ye costage, for his pensyon, ij denar.
1446–7 in W. P. Baildon Black Bks. (Rec. Soc. Lincoln's Inn) (1897) I. 17 It is ordeyned..that no man be behynde of his pencyon ouer a ȝeer.
1569 Pension Bk. Gray's Inn (1901) 2 Hy hath one Chamber..chargeable with payment of pencion.
1630 Pension Bk. Gray's Inn (1901) 299 It is ordered..that the steward from henceforth shall receive all pencions wch shalbe due for the persons of every gentleman in this Societie.
1666 W. Dugdale Origines Juridiciales 290 That no Officer compound for personal Pensions, but by authority from the Pension Councel.
1714 Pension Bk. Clement's Inn (1960) 2 Mr. Richard Lowth one of the Companions of this Society being in arreare for pencions & absent Commons [etc.].
1824 Table Order Inner Temple 27 Jan. in Acts of Parl. & Bench Table Orders of Inner Temple (1884) 53 The Collector is directed to deliver an account half-yearly after Hilary and Trinity Terms, of all sums owing for Dues, Commons, Pensions [etc.].
1838 in W. P. Baildon Black Bks. Lincoln's Inn (Rec. Soc. Lincoln's Inn) IV. 198 To consider the propriety of discontinuing the words ‘Preacher’ and ‘Pensions’ as two items of the bills for dues.
1992 C. Kenny King's Inns & Kingdom of Ireland vii. 229 ‘A great arrear’ of pensions and commons due from barristers and attorneys was allowed to mount up by 1735.
6. An annuity or other regular payment made to a retired employee, servant, citizen, etc., by right or in consideration of past services, the relinquishment of an emolument, etc.In the past, the state or crown paid pensions to retired civil servants, and to soldiers, sailors, etc., disabled in public service (or, if killed in action, to their widows). Pensions were sometimes also granted to notable public figures in recognition of eminent achievements. Similarly, certain private individuals, businesses, etc., granted pensions to former employees or servants.More recently, many states have adopted the practice of paying pensions to all those who have reached a specified retirement age (subject to various conditions of eligibility). Since the late 19th cent., various private pension schemes have also operated, whereby an individual makes regular payments into a trust fund or foundation over the course of his or her working life, and on retirement draws from the fund a pension determined by the amount contributed and (often) the period over which contributions have been made. Private pensions may complement or replace state pensions. Payment of both state and private pensions usually continues until the death of the beneficiary, and under some arrangements may then be transferred to a spouse or other dependant. See also old age pension n., pension fund n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payment in consideration of past service
pension1529
superannuationa1704
retirement pension1832
pension money1854
retired pay1867
1529 T. Wolsey Let. to Gardiner in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 11 That I may have summe convenyent pencion reservyd unto me, suche as the Kyngs hyhnes of hys nobyl charite shal thynke mete.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. v. 173 I will not giue my part of this sport for a pension of thousands to be paid from the Sophy. View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 290 They who are maimed in the warres..haue from them a Pension for life, or the value of the Pension in ready mony.
?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 349 Wh[itelocke] counseld her to..take care for the securing of her revenue not to have it as a pention.
1706 Queen Anne in A. Boyer Hist. Reign Queen Anne: Year the Fifth (1707) 426 It would be very agreeable to Her Majesty if the Pension of 5000 l. per Annum, be continued and limited by Act of Parliament to his [sc. the Duke of Marlborough's] Posterity, for the more honourable Support of their Dignities.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 104 We have Chelsea and Greenwich hospitals for the sick and maimed, pensions for the widows of such as have been slain.
1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. i. 15 Shamshir Bahadur was content to desist from opposition, and to accept a pension for himself and for his family, with permission to reside at Banda.
1878 W. L. Blackley Ess. Prev. Pauperism (1880) 28 The cost..£14..would entitle the insurer to receive 8s. a week, whenever sick, till the age of 70, after which time he would draw a pension of 4s. per week as long as he lived.
1918 L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained 110 Navy men who have been in the service for ten years and have been discharged by no fault of their own or misconduct, may apply to the surplus fund of pensions for help.
1960 S. Unwin Truth about Publisher i. ix. 130 The married man..completed over fifty years' service with the firm, and eventually retired on a pension of considerably more than the pay he was getting when I first encountered him.
1976 Beano 28 Feb. 12/2 Let's go to the post office and collect your pension, granny.
1994 Investors Chron. 28 Jan. 40/1 Investigations into the mis-selling of personal pensions continue to dog the life insurance industry.
7.
a. Payment for board and lodging, or for the board and education of a pupil at a school. Now rare, and only with reference to France or other countries in continental Europe.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for food, board, or service
pension1696
board-bill1833
table money1841
American plan1848
corkage1884
service charge1889
fixed price1907
service1909
cover charge1921
demi-pension1951
rack rate1976
cakeage1985
1564 in H. Paton Rep. Laing MSS (1914) I. 20 For that I am best cheip in pensioun as your lordship sall understand..of Alexander Moreis..quho was factour..to ane Mr. James Hammiltoun and thairfor hes the knawlege quhat he payit for him and quhatt is the leist pensioun in this universitie.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pension,..also, money payed for the tabling, or boording of children.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Pension,..a Summ pay'd by any Person for Dyet and Lodging.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. vi. 103 The Pension from each Family for the Education and Entertainment of a Child..is levyed by the Emperor's Officers.
1796 E. Parsons Myst. Warning III. 5 A sum sufficient to pay for my pension in a convent for two or three years.
1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) II. 269 A household where she was to be tolerated for the pension she paid.
1821 Ld. Byron Let. 3 Apr. (1978) VIII. 97 I had no resource but to place her for a time (at a high pension too) in the convent of Bagna-Cavalli.
1959 G. D. Painter Marcel Proust I. xi. 183 They stayed in the annexe..and pension was a mere two francs a day.
b. to be (also live) in pension: to live as a boarder in lodgings, to board. to put in (also to) pension, to place on pension: to settle (a person) in lodgings. Cf. en pension adv. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] > at the house of another, an inn, etc. > board
board1556
to be (also live) in pension?1605
pension1642
to board round or around1828
PG1923
society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > provide with temporary accommodation > place in temporary accommodation
quarter1588
billet1605
to put in (also to) pension?1605
cantonize1626
board1655
?1605 R. Dallington Method for Trauell sig. B4v I would not haue him liue at his owne prouision... Let him be still in pension with others.
1665 in M. M. Verney Mem. (1899) IV. 121 We are 16 of my uncle and aunts family, and all in pention, att 10s. a weeke for owerselves, and 7s. for owr servants with lodgens in.
1673 J. Dryden Assignation iv. i. 43 My two Neeces..are to be plac'd on Pension there.
1714 D. Manley Adventures of Rivella 96 She was put for sometime to Pension..at a poor Woman's House.
c. A boarding house; a small hotel. Formerly also: †a tavern; a boarding school (obsolete).Chiefly used with reference to France or other countries in continental Europe.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > boarding school
charge-house1598
pensiona1652
tabling school1660
boarding school1677
board-school1740
pensionnat1840
residential school1876
pension-school1902
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > entertainment with food > boarding-house
pensiona1652
boarding-house1728
roadhouse1806
boarding-place1854
hash house1865
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > boarding house
pensiona1652
boarding-house1728
lodging-house1766
private hotel1796
drum1846
boarding-place1854
lodging-hall1860
rooming house1873
chawl1891
model1899
guest house1925
kipping-house1925
pensione1929
pensionnat1963
a1652 R. Brome Damoiselle iv. i, in Five New Playes (1653) Bump. Ile make one w'ye at your new Ordinary... Val... There's no such Pension in all this City.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 149 I settled them in their Pension and exercises.
?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 80 They gott a pention..or lodging in that part of the Citty, where no Englishmen were.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 18 I then went to lodge in Galata, at a Flemand's House..who kept a Pension.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) vi. 153 As for the boys of fashion,..if they are come from the country, they are boarded in what they call a pension, or have a private tutor to teach them.
1778 J. Adams Diary 12 May (1961) II. 312 My little Son, and the other young Americans, at the Pension, dined with Us.
1833 R. Pinkerton Russia 152 There is also a respectable Pension or Boarding-school for Young Ladies.
1879 H. James Daisy Miller I. i. 2 From the ‘grand hotel’ of the newest fashion..to the little Swiss pension of an elder day.
1937 Discovery Feb. 48/1 The hideous rows of Belgian pensions.
1978 J. Irving World according to Garp v. 82 Jenny and Garp..lived in more than a dozen pensions all over Vienna.
1995 Daily Mail Holiday Action Summer (Mountains & Lakes Suppl.) 6/2 Most of La Plagne's accommodation is in apartments, but there are some hotels as well as pensions.
8. A consultative assembly of the members of Gray's Inn, London.Quot. 1663 indicates that formerly all members of Gray's Inn participated in pensions. However, in more recent times participation has been restricted to benchers (bencher n. 1b). Cf. parliament n.1 4a.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > member of Inns of Court > consultative assembly of
parliament1557
pension1570
Temple parliament1641
1570 Pension Bk. Gray's Inn 7 At this pencion yt is ordered that all suche persons [etc.].
1663 in E. Waterhouse Comm. Fortescue's De Laudibus Legum xlix. 546 Every quarter,..the Readers and Benchers cause one of the Officers to summon the whole Company openly in the Hall at dinner, that such a night the Pension, or as some houses call it the Parliament, shall be holden, which Pension..is nothing else but a conference and Assembly of their Benchers and Utter-Barresters onely.
1664 Pension Bk. Gray's Inn 449 It is ordred yt Mr. Beale shall bee summoned to attend ye next pencion.
1897 Daily News 30 Jan. 8/5 At a pension held yesterday Mr. Mattinson, Q.C., Recorder of Blackburn, was elected treasurer of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn for the ensuing year.
1955 Standing Orders of Pension (Hon. Soc. Gray's Inn) 13 A Pension shall be held once in each week during Term.
1975 Cambr. Law. Jrnl. 139 Meetings of the pension [in Gray's Inn] were recorded as taking place ‘before’ or ‘in front of’..readers. The formula, which was stereotyped, indicates that at some time or other the readers were not the only persons present at pensions.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and objective (chiefly in sense 6).
a.
pension act n. (also pensions act)
ΚΠ
1775 J. Scott Remarks on Patriot 43 You must petition, and petition, and remonstrate, till you have obtained a Peerage Act, and a Place and Pension Act.]
1819 Times 22 Dec. 2/2 His object..was, to be enabled to move..for leave to bring in a bill to expunge so much from the act, commonly called the Chelsea pension act, as affected a certain number of persons now deprived..of pensions intended for the reward of their service.
1875 C. Bancroft Footprints of Time 342 The supplementary Pension Act, approved June six, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, provides increased rates of pensions over those granted by the Act of July fourteen.
1996 Which? Apr. 25/2 After the Maxwell pension fund raids, a positive duty to speak out was written into the Pensions Act 1995.
pension benefit n. (also pensions benefit)
ΚΠ
1891 Times 11 Mar. 6/6 He hoped he had succeeded..in showing the House..that the funds of the friendly societies did not allow of their giving any pension benefits in old age.
1945 Release & Resettlement (H.M. Govt.) xii. 40 Pensions benefits comprise pensions for widows..and orphans, and old age pensions.
1994 Maturity Mag. (New Westminster, Brit. Columbia) May–June 23/2 Ask your company's personnel office to estimate the amount of your pension benefit, assuming that you retire at age 65.
pension law n. (also pensions law)
ΚΠ
1799 J. Barry Let. Dilettanti Soc. (ed. 2) App. 261 At the time of the passing of the Pension Law, of which they were identical framers.
1820 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 185 Not so many [are dead] as was thought..before the late pension law, which has had an excellent effect upon old soldiers, and brought them to wonderfully.
1893 Harper's Mag. Jan. 235/2 Disability, within the meaning of the pension laws, may be defined as the effect of any disease.
1995 City Paper (Baltimore) 27 Sept. 8/3 They'll get a big windfall back anyway, in the form of a change in pension laws that will allow corporations to use millions of dollars of ‘excess’ money in employee pension funds any way they want.
pension-monger n.
ΚΠ
a1843 W. S. Rose in Ld. Byron Wks. (1846) 230/2 (note) My trade of place and pension-monger.
2000 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 20 Aug. 6 The dreadful pension-mongers who swarm around the self-employed like hyenas after a lion kill.
pension principle n.
ΚΠ
1828 Reg. Deb. Congr. 4 700/2 The present plan extends the pension principle too far.
1926 Times 12 Jan. 13/1 There are liberal pensions for the widows and children of men who died in the 1918-19 influenza epidemic, but these constitute a special case and do not affect the general pension principle.
2001 Pensions Week (Nexis) 26 Nov. The application of a pension principle to those who might work such limited hours needs to be carefully thought through.
pension right n.
ΚΠ
1881 Times 26 Mar. 8/3 Nothing will be done to affect the pension rights of any one..who is already in Her Majesty's service.
1956 G. A. Hosking Pension Schemes xli. 283 The existence of a pension scheme acts as a deterrent when withdrawal means loss of pension rights.
1991 Which? Aug. 466/2 If you've been a member of a company pension scheme for less than two years, your scheme is not legally obliged to grant you any pension rights.
b.
pension-paying adj.
ΚΠ
1887 Elyria (Ohio) Democrat 13 Oct. 3/4 All the pension-paying Governments on earth.
1901 Empire Rev. 1 427 Habitual drunkards and convicted criminals are to be rejected in Victoria as in the other pension-paying colonies.
2004 Asbury Park Press (Neptune, New Jersey) (Nexis) 8 Jan. a31 A commitment not to accept multiple, pension-paying government jobs.
c. (In sense 7c.)
(a)
pension-boarder n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > in another's house > lodger
boarder1530
inmake1536
inmate1589
quarterer1595
commoner1598
tabler1598
by-settel1612
lodgera1616
inquilinea1641
pensioner1673
pensionnairea1794
Artful Dodger1839
paying guest1853
roomer1859
star boarder1875
pension-boarder1898
latchkey1905
PG1925
1898 Westm. Gaz. 26 Feb. 2/1 The villa folk..meet the pension-boarders on terms of slight superiority.
pension-keeper n.
ΚΠ
1885 Times 22 Sept. 4/1 Niagara is..insulted by American advertisements of hotels,..but even that is scarcely so offensive..as the proclamations of a pension keeper..set up on gigantic boards next to the Rialto or the Bridge of Sighs.
1919 Times 12 Nov. 17/5 The paltry tyranny peculiar to the unspeakable pension-keeper of the past.
1998 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 17 Jan. I found a room at the same pension I had stayed in two decades before, the Villa Verde. The pension-keeper was still there, too.
(b)
pension-dwelling adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1898 Westm. Gaz. 26 Feb. 1/3 Your visitors are mostly pension-dwelling, ruin-visiting, unbathed, cantankerous ladies of middle age.
d. (In sense 8.)
pension room n.
ΚΠ
1721 in W. P. Baildon Black Bks. (Rec. Soc. Lincoln's Inn) (1899) III. 261 Over the Pention Roome and under the Library of this Society.
1911 Times 30 June 10/5 The members of the Society will never forget that Your Majesty..graced our House by your presence as a Guest in our Hall and Pension Room in Easter Term, 1907.
1969 Welcome to New Members (Hon. Soc. Gray's Inn) 15 The small Pension Room is now principally used for meetings of committees, and as a retiring room, and the large Pension Room for meetings of Benchers—still known as ‘Pensions’.
2003 Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. 14 Debate: The future of the referral Bar and the silk system... Large Pension Room, Gray's Inn.
C2.
pension age n. the age at which a pension may be claimed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > old age > for specific purpose
pension age1889
1889 Times 20 Apr. 8/2 Such a measure would relieve sound friendly societies from the..burden of continuous sick pay to aged members, as their future contracts would be made terminable with the attainment of pension age.
1995 Which? July 31/1 Women born between 1950 and 1955 have a sliding scale of pension ages between 60 and 65.
pension book n. (a) a book in which records of pension payments, beneficiaries, etc., were kept (now historical); (b) (British) (also pensions book) a book of vouchers supplied by the government for the weekly payment of a person's pension.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payment to maintain estate or carry on work > book recording
pension book1569
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payment in consideration of past service > pension book
pension book1966
1569 Pension Bk. Gray's Inn 2 That all thys graunt may be entred into the pencion booke.
1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Fvv Yow shall also keepe a Pencion-Booke whiche shall declare the Number of the poore in this Citie, relieued by this Hospitall.
1718 B. Willis Hist. Mitred Parl. Abbies I. 40 Richard Ladds a Novice, whose Name is put separate in the Pension Book.
1892 Times 15 Nov. 14/2 This pension book will contain 26 coupons in duplicate, numbered consecutively.
1966 Listener 17 Mar. 391/2 One result of having this new unified social security administration will be that the pensions book and the National Assistance book..will become one book.
1996 L. Gough Choosing Pension viii. 106 You can arrange for someone else to collect your pension for you, but always make sure that you get the pension book back afterwards.
pension day n. (also pensions day) a day of the week or month on which pensions are regularly paid.
ΚΠ
1792 R. Loder Statutes & Ordinances Alms-houses in Woodbridge, Suffolk 4 Four-pence, to be deducted out of his pension, by the Paymaster, at the next pension day.
1827 Times 6 Oct. 3/2 Knowing it to be the pension-day, she thought she should find him at Oxford-market.
1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 24 Jan. 115/3 The maimed soldiers of the last war..wander through the country from town to town, and reappear in the city on pension-day.
1993 R. D. Edwards Clubbed to Death (BNC) 70 I've got caught in the post office once or twice on pension day when I was buying more stamps for my fruitless job applications.
pension fee n. Obsolete an annuity or other payment made as a pension.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payment to maintain estate or carry on work
exhibition1498
pension fee1601
pension money1663
malikana1840
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 170 [Siccius Dentatus was honoured] with a stipend or pension-fee [Fr. fisque; L. fiscus] out of the Exchequer & chamber of the city.
1612 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) II. 346 Of pensione feyes to the procurator xxiiij li.
1887 G. Martin Marguerite lxxiv Now, when I draw my pension fee I view it with an eye of glee.
pension house n. (a) a building in Gray's Inn in which consultative assemblies were held (see sense 8) (obsolete); (b) (also pensions house) (originally) †a house in which pensioners are accommodated (obsolete); (now) a financial institution dealing in pensions.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal profession > [noun] > Inns of Court > part where records of payments kept
pension house1577
1577 Pension Bk. Gray's Inn 30 A good and substanciall chist..to remayne in the pencion house..for the keping of the bookes of account and pencion Roles.
1601 Pension Bk. Gray's Inn 153 Mr. Necton beinge warned to come to the pencion house hath refused to come.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) vi. 156 In a pension house, which is commonly kept by a preist..they are commonly so bigotted..that they will not take care of them, if they are not catholicks.
1837 Times 30 Dec. 3/1 The number of poor..admitted into the poorhouses and pension-houses in 1837 was 12,945.
2004 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 21 Jan. 7 State pension funds, state-controlled pension houses,..and food and other monopolies offer additional milk-cow situations to the politically connected.
pension list n. (also pensions list) a list of persons entitled to or in receipt of a pension.
ΚΠ
1770 (title) Thoughts, English and Irish, on the pension list of Ireland.
1893 Harper's Mag. Jan. 235/1 Is the pension list a roll of honor? All patriotic citizens agree that it ought to be.
1975 Times 12 July 9/5 The army people were terrified that if anything happened I'd be on their pension list for the rest of my life.
2003 Irish Times (Nexis) 23 Dec. 3 Retired Fianna Fail ministers on the pension list.
pension money n. (a) money paid by members for the upkeep of any of the Inns of Court or Chancery (see sense 5) (obsolete); (b) (also pensions money) money used for the payment of pensions.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payment to maintain estate or carry on work
exhibition1498
pension fee1601
pension money1663
malikana1840
society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > share contributed by individual > by member of guild, union, or society
pension1431
levy1640
pension money1663
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payment in consideration of past service
pension1529
superannuationa1704
retirement pension1832
pension money1854
retired pay1867
1663 in E. Waterhouse Comm. Fortescue's De Laud. Leg. 544 The four houses of Court..every one that is admitted fellow, after that he is called to the Masters Commons, payeth yearly 3. shillings 4. pence which they call the pension mony.
1749 in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1915) III. 733 I give..all my Waidges Prize money Pention money [etc.].
1854 B. P. Shillaber Life & Sayings Mrs. Partington 190 The old lady had presented a check for a quarter's pension-money.
1995 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 Feb. c1/5 Despite the strong long-term performance of Twentieth Century's stock funds, its lack of bond funds made it a harder sell as a manager of defined-contribution pension money.
pension mortgage n. British Finance a mortgage on which the borrower repays interest only, and also contributes to a pension plan designed to provide an eventual tax-free lump sum, part of which is used to repay the capital at the end of the mortgage period and the rest to provide a pension for the borrower's retirement.
ΚΠ
1983 Times 30 Apr. 12/5 The terms apply to..those switching to a pension mortgage.
1995 Which? July 52/1 All the advisers mentioned endowments and repayments, but only a third mentioned PEP and pension mortgages.
Pension Parliament n. English History (now rare) = Pensioner Parliament n. at pensioner n. Compounds 2; also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > a particular English or British parliament > specific
great Parliamentc1450
Good Parliament1580
addle parliament1614
giunto1641
junto1641
Unlearned Parliament1643
Long Parliament1646
rump?1653
Short Parliament1653
lay Parliament1655
Barebone's Parliament1657
Rump Parliament1659
Little Parliamenta1675
Long Parliament1678
Pensioner Parliament1678
Pensioned Parliament1681
Bluestocking Parliamenta1683
Pension Parliament1682
Pensionary Parliament1690
marvellous Parliament?1706
rumple1725
lack-learning Parliament1765
unreported Parliament1839
Cavalier Parliament1849
Addled Parliament1857
merciless Parliament1875
wonderful Parliament1878
nominated Parliament1898
1682 J. Dryden in T. Southerne Loyal Brother Epil. 59 'Tis Faction buys the Votes of half the Pit; Their's is the Pension-Parliament of wit.
a1735 E. Harley in Portland MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) V. 642 During the whole reign of Charles II. he [sc. Sir R. Harley] was a member of that Parliament called the Pension Parliament.
1868 W. Smith Hist. Eng. 230 It lasted, though with some long prorogations, till Jan. 24, 1679; and earned the title of the ‘Pension Parliament’ by the bribes which its members received from the kings both of England and of France.
1961 I. Jennings Party Politics II. i. 21 In the Cavalier (or Pension) Parliament the Court had 150 votes.
pension plan n. (also pensions plan) an arrangement or system for contributions into and payments from a pension fund.
ΚΠ
1892 Catholic World Aug. 751 The Old Age Pension plan has, by the labors of the committee which took upon itself the task of dealing with the matter, received a final shape.]
1909 Times 31 May 6/1 The commission is conducting a census..to arrive at some estimate of the number of people..who would be entitled by reason of their poverty to share in the profits of a pension plan.
1991 Which? Aug. 464/2 Benefits are likely to be lower than the ‘typical’ schemes because of the additional pension members will receive from SERPS [sc. State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme] or from a pension plan used to contract out of SERPS.
pension-proof adj. Obsolete immune to pensions offered as bribes (also figurative).
ΚΠ
1650 W. Mure Cry of Blood 192 in Wks. (1898) II. 39 The fatall Isle Whence were reviv'd our woes, (Preferment, Place, And Pension proof).
1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun I. 189 Quirk was pension-proof against all this womanish artillery.
pension roll n. (a) a roll formerly held by any of the Inns of Court or Chancery listing members upon whom pensions were levied (see sense 5) (now historical); (b) a list of persons entitled to a pension under a particular scheme.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal profession > [noun] > Inns of Court > part where records of payments kept > record of payments
pension roll1508
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payment in consideration of past service > pensioner > list of people entitled to pension
pension roll1508
1508–9 in W. P. Baildon Black Bks. (Rec. Soc. Lincoln's Inn) (1897) I. 159 Item, to the Botillers for wrytyng the Pencion Roll ijs. viijd.
1651 Black Bks. Lincoln's Inn (1898) II. 392 The Butler is every term to make up a Pencion Roll.
1828 A. Sherburne Mem. vi. 239 This gentle~man..forwarded to me certificates of the continuation of my name on the pension roll.
1905 N.E.D. at Pensioner The officer in the Inns of Court who collected the pensions, kept the pension-book or pension-roll, [etc.].
1907 Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 10/1 Miss Robb..was the posthumous child of Captain Robb,..and was put on the State pension-roll at birth.
2003 Independent (Nexis) 25 Aug. If I were someone who subscribed to conspiracy theories, I might think that this was a case of state-encouraged euthanasia by weather—10,000 people off the pension rolls instantly.
pension scheme n. (also pensions scheme) a scheme under which pensions are financed and administered.
ΚΠ
1822 Times 7 June 3/1 No good subject can now doubt the conjuring power of the naval and military pension scheme.
1892 C. S. Loch Old Age Pensions & Pauperism 3 The returns of pauperism in England and Wales are frequently quoted as absolute evidence in favour of some kind of National Pension Scheme.
1928 B. Robertson & H. Samuels Pension & Superannuation Funds viii. 79 Pension schemes are growing up not only in industry proper; many institutions..have their own schemes of superannuating those in their service.
1996 Daily Tel. 18 Nov. 27/4 Employers with pension schemes like to swirl money around in the pot, to make pensions depend on stamina or status.
pension schemer n. rare a person who advocates or participates in a pension scheme.
ΚΠ
1899 Westm. Gaz. 27 July 1/3 The pension-schemers,..for the future, must be those who will tell us how to find ten millions.
2003 M2 PressWIRE (Nexis) 15 Jan. Pension schemers guilty in GBP 1m scam.
pension-school n. rare a boarding school.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > boarding school
charge-house1598
pensiona1652
tabling school1660
boarding school1677
board-school1740
pensionnat1840
residential school1876
pension-school1902
1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 2/1 The pension-school life of Hanover, Dresden and Leipzig..seems a harmless enough amusement for an ordinary girl of seventeen or eighteen with some money and sufficient good sense.
pension-writ n. Obsolete a process issued by any of the Inns of Court of Chancery against a member in arrears for pensions (see sense 5).
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > writ issued by Inn of Court
pension-writ1537
1537 Cal. Inner Temple Rec. (1896) I. 115 Yt is also agreed..at the said parliament that a pencion-writt shalbe served, wherby the dettes of the Howse may the soner be paid.
1576 Pension Bk. Gray's Inn 27 It is agreed that a pencion writt be forthwyth suede.
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Pension-Writ. When a Pension-Writ is once issued, none, sued thereby in an Inns of Court, shall be discharged or permitted to come in Commons, till all duties be paid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pensionv.

Brit. /ˈpɛnʃn/, U.S. /ˈpɛnʃ(ə)n/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pension n.
Etymology: < pension n. With sense 1 compare post-classical Latin pensionare (1382 in a French source), Middle French, French pensionner (c1335), Catalan pensionar (1380), Spanish pensionar (1367 or earlier in past participle pensionado ), Italian pensionare (1598 in Florio: see quot. 1598 at sense 1; also ‘to retire (an employee) with a pension’ (1797 or earlier)), and also Old Occitan pensionar to employ (a person) and pay a salary (14th cent.; Occitan pensionar).
I. Senses relating to the payment of a pension.
1. transitive. To grant a pension to, bestow a pension upon; to retain or bribe with a pension. Also figurative and in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > support by payment [verb (transitive)] > grant pension to
pension1598
aliment1629
superannuate1856
out-pension1893
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pensionare, to wage, to pension, to stipend, to keepe in paie.
1647 Englands Remedy sig. C3 All that you can either do or suffer yet further, shall profit you nothing, if ye suffer yourselves to be corrupted, bribed, pensioned divided, or deluded.
1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina iii. 278 They..received their lame Souldiers in hospitals, and pensioned some others who were more eminent.
a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. iii. 537 One might expect, methinks, to see the Medals of that nation in the highest perfection, when there is a society pensioned and set apart on purpose for the designing of them.
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 22 The Hero William, and the Martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles.
1800 Marquess Wellesley Let. 5 Mar. in Select. Despatches (1877) 657 The adoption of a plan for pensioning public officers incapable of service is required.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 208 He bribed and stimulated both parties in turn, pensioned at once the ministers of the crown and the chiefs of the opposition.
1946 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Jan. 13/4 Old Charlie pensioned his horse and jinker in favor of a vintaged Ford.
1987 Daily Tel. 7 Feb. 16/4 In his last, invalid years the Spain of Don Juan Carlos honoured and pensioned him with great generosity.
2. transitive. to pension off: to dismiss with a pension; to retire (an employee) with a pension. Also figurative and in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > retire (a person) > with pension
superannuate1692
to pension off1756
1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 9 It was..proclaimed aloud in our streets..that Mr. Burke had been pensioned off.
1820 Times 12 Jan. 2/3 Two deputy and five assistant storekeepers have been pensioned off.
1848 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 8 Mar. (1954) I. 254 Certainly our decayed monarchs should be pensioned off.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 142 You have taken it into your head that I mean to pension you off.
1916 G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion Pref. p. lxvi Poor people are cancers in the commonwealth, costing far more than if they were handsomely pensioned off as incurables.
1968 Listener 5 Sept. 290 The convention system..is an old and cunning harridan, as irrelevant as Mayor Daley, and should be pensioned off.
1996 Daily Tel. 2 Jan. 7/5 The last canaries to risk death in Britain's coalmines were finally pensioned off yesterday.
II. Senses relating to lodging.
3. intransitive. To live or stay in a pension or boarding house; to board and lodge. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] > at the house of another, an inn, etc. > board
board1556
to be (also live) in pension?1605
pension1642
to board round or around1828
PG1923
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell iv. 53 When they meet with any person of note..and journey or pension with him any time.
1649 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 129 For you to pension, unless there were company sutable for you, would not I conceave be agreeable.
1714 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c9 Aug. (1965) I. 215 [It] is the same thing as pensioning in a convent.
1879 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 450 The small country house where we pensioned.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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