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pensions
We have found lemma(root) word of pensions : pension.
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[ˈpɛnʃn], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a regular payment made by the state to people of or above the official retirement age and to some widows and disabled people
(e.g: men can draw a pension from the age of sixty-five)
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘payment, tax, regular sum paid to retain allegiance’): from Old French, from Latin pensio(n-) ‘payment’, from pendere ‘to pay’. The current verb sense dates from the mid 19th century
[ˈpɛnʃn], (Verb)
Definitions:
- dismiss someone from employment, typically because of age or ill health, and pay them a pension
(e.g: he was pensioned off from the army after the war)
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Origin
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘payment, tax, regular sum paid to retain allegiance’): from Old French, from Latin pensio(n-) ‘payment’, from pendere ‘to pay’. The current verb sense dates from the mid 19th century
[ˈpɒ̃sjɒ̃], (Noun)
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- a small hotel or boarding house in France and other European countries
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French
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