Definition of Pension

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Pension

A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.

A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.

A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.

A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.

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Pension Quotations

Chase your passion, not your pension.
Denis Waitley

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.
John Gotti

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
Grover Cleveland

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
Ben Stein

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.
Paul Hawken

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.
O. J. Simpson

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
Bela Lugosi

Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades.
Ron Lewis

With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
Ted Lindsay

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
John Lee Hooker

Pension Translations

pension in Afrikaans is pensioen
pension in Dutch is pensioen
pension in French is retraite, revenu, pension
pension in German is Pension
pension in Italian is assegnamento, reddito
pension in Spanish is redito, renta
pension in Swedish is pension

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