Penchant vs. Pension
Penchantnoun
Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
Penchantnoun
A card game resembling bezique.
Penchantnoun
(card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.
Penchantnoun
Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.
Penchantnoun
A game like bézique, or, in the game, any queen and jack of different suits held together.
Penchantnoun
a strong liking;
Pensionnoun
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.
Pensionnoun
A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
Pensionnoun
(obsolete) A wage or fee.
Pensionnoun
(obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
Pensionnoun
A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
Pensionnoun
A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.
Pensionnoun
(obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Pensionverb
(transitive) To grant a pension to.
Pensionverb
(transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
Pensionnoun
A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
Pensionnoun
A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; also, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.
Pensionnoun
A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
Pensionnoun
A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Pensionverb
To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; - sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.
Pensionnoun
a regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow them to subsist without working
Pensionverb
grant a pension to
Pensionnoun
a regular payment made by the state to people of or above the official retirement age and to some widows and disabled people
Pensionnoun
a regular payment made during a person's retirement from an investment fund to which that person or their employer has contributed during their working life
Pensionnoun
a regular payment made to a royal favourite or to an artist or scholar to enable them to carry on work of public interest or value.
Pensionnoun
a small hotel or boarding house in France and other European countries.
Pensionverb
dismiss someone from employment, typically because of age or ill health, and pay them a pension
Pensionverb
discard something because it is too old or no longer wanted
Pension
A pension (, from Latin pensiō, ) is a fund into which a sum of money is added during an employee's employment years and from which payments are drawn to support the person's retirement from work in the form of periodic payments. A pension may be a , where a fixed sum is paid regularly to a person, or a , under which a fixed sum is invested that then becomes available at retirement age.
