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"Pension" in Portuguese?

Pronunciation : Pen"sion
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [F., fr. L. pensio a paying, payment, fr. pendere, pensum, to weight, to pay; akin to pend to hang. See Pendant, and cf. Spend.]
Definition : 1. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [Obs.] The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. Sylvester.

2. 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. To all that kept the city pensions and wages. 1 Esd. iv. 56.

3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

4. Etym: [F., pronounced .]

Defn: A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Pen"sion
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: 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. One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles. Pope.

t. [imp. & p. p. Pensioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Pensioning.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913