<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.</li><li>an allowance, annuity, or subsidy.</li><li>(in France and elsewhere in continental Europe) a boardinghouse or small hotel.</li><li>room and board.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to grant or pay a pension to.</li><li>to cause to retire on a pension (usually followed by off).</li></ul>