Pension

n. [Fr. & Sp. pension, Pr. pensio, It. pensione, from Lat. pensio, a paying, payment, from pendere, pensum, to weigh, to pay.]

1Sense 1. A payment made; rent; interest paid.

2Sense 2. Specifically, a stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, for age, disability, or other cause; especially, a yearly stipend paid by government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed, to meritorious and needy authors, artists, &c., or the like.

3Sense 3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. [Eng.]

4Sense 4. A French boarding-house; a boarding-house, or boarding-school.