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noun 
  1. A boarding house or small hotel in Europe.
"A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not" (John Irving).
  1. Accommodations or the payment for accommodations, especially at a boarding house or small hotel in Europe.
  2. A sum of money paid regularly as retirement benefit due to age, disability or other cause, or by way of patronage.
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  1. 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; especially, 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. -->
verb 
  1. To force someone to retire on a pension.
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