Pension vs. Rent
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.
Rentnoun
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
Rentnoun
A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
Rentnoun
(economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
Rentnoun
An object for which rent is charged or paid.
Rentnoun
(obsolete) Income; revenue.
Rentnoun
A tear or rip in some surface.
Rentnoun
A division or schism.
Rentverb
(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
Rentverb
(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
Rentverb
(transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
Rentverb
(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
Rentverb
simple past tense and past participle of rend
Rentverb
To rant.
Rentverb
To tear. See Rend.
Rentverb
To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
Rentverb
To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
Rentverb
To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
Rent
imp. & p. p. of Rend.
Rentnoun
An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
Rentnoun
Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
Rentnoun
Income; revenue. See Catel.
Rentnoun
Pay; reward; share; toll.
Rentnoun
A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
Rentnoun
That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the "original and indestructible powers of the soil;" the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the "margin of cultivation." Called also economic rent, or Ricardian rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent.
Rentnoun
a regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property
Rentnoun
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;
Rentnoun
the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
Rentnoun
the act of rending or ripping or splitting something;
Rentverb
let for money;
Rentverb
grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;
Rentverb
engage for service under a term of contract;
Rentverb
hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
