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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A boarding house or small hotel, as in continental Europe, which offers lodging and certain meals and services.
  • Accommodations or the payment for accommodations, especially at a boarding house or small hotel in Europe.
  • archaic A wage in active service
  • A regularly paid gratuity paid regularly as benefit due to a person in consideration of past services; notably to one retired from service, on account of retirement age, disability or similar cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers; sometimes passed on to the heirs, or even specifically for them, as to the families of soldiers killed in service.
  • A stated regular allowance by way of patronage or subsidy, e.g. to meritorious artists, or the like.

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Verb:

  • To force someone to retire on a pension.
  • To grant a pension

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