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.

(obsolete) A wage or fee.

(obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.

A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.

(now historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.

A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.

(obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

(transitive) To grant a pension to.

(transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.