pension

Money paid regularly to someone who has stopped working because of age or illness.

• My grandfather receives a pension.
• She retired last year with a small pension.
• Will your pension cover your living costs?

Similar words: retirement benefit

Common phrases: state pension, receive a pension, pension scheme, military pension

A small hotel, especially in Europe, that often provides meals as well as a room.

• We stayed in a small pension.
• The pension served breakfast in the garden.
• They booked a room at a family pension near the lake.

Similar words: guesthouse, boarding house

Common phrases: small pension, family pension, stay in a pension

Money paid for a room and usually meals in a house or small hotel.

• His weekly pension included breakfast.
• She paid the landlady her pension on Monday.
• The pension for lodging and meals used up his wages.

Similar words: board, boarding fee

Common phrases: pay a pension, weekly pension, pension for lodging

To make someone leave their job and give them regular payments afterward.

• They decided to pension him off.
• Several older workers were pensioned off last year.
• The firm pensions employees off when they reach retirement age.

How to use it: pension someone off (The company pensioned him off after thirty years.)

Similar words: retire

Common phrases: pension someone off, pension off staff