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单词 pension
释义 pension
 —pensionable,  adj.   —pensionably,  adv.   —pensionless,  adj.  
 /pen"sheuhn/; Fr. /pahonn syawonn"/ for 3,  n.  ,  pl.   pensions /-sheuhnz/; Fr. /-syawonn"/ for 3,  v.  
  n.  
  1. 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.
  2. an allowance, annuity, or subsidy.
  3. (in France and elsewhere in continental Europe)
   a. a boardinghouse or small hotel.
   b. room and board.
  v.t.  
  4. to grant or pay a pension to.
  5. to cause to retire on a pension (usually fol. by off).
 [1325-75; ME ( < OF pensïon) < L pension- (s. of pensio) a weighing out, hence, a paying out, installment paying, equiv. to pens(us) (ptp. of pendere to weigh out, pay by weight, equiv. to pend- v. s. + -tus ptp. suffix, with dt > s) + -ion- -ION]
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