Examples of “pension” in a Sentence

noun A regular payment made to someone after they retire, based on their years of work.

• She retired at 65 and now lives on her pension.
• The company pension covers about half of his old salary.
• My grandfather gets a small pension every month from the factory where he worked.

verb To pay someone a pension, or to force them into retirement with one.

• The council agreed to pension the long-serving caretaker when he turned sixty-five.
• The firm pensioned off its older staff to cut costs.
• The airline pensioned off several senior pilots during the restructuring.

noun A small guesthouse or hotel, especially in Continental Europe, offering rooms and meals.

• They stayed in a cozy pension near the Paris train station.
• We booked a family-run pension in the Austrian mountains, and breakfast was included.
• The pension had only six rooms, but the owner cooked dinner for every guest.