Meaning

• An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes.

  "Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills."

• A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.

  "A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not (John Irving)."

• A wage or fee.

• A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.

• A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.

• A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.

• A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

Meaning

• To grant a pension to.

• To force (someone) to retire on a pension.