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.
A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
From Middle English pension, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pensio ("payment, weight, rent, compensation"), from the participle stem of pendere. pensione.
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