Rente — meaning in English
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English meaning
- annuity noun A fixed sum of money paid to someone at regular intervals, often for the rest of their life, usually as part of a retirement or investment plan.
- pension noun A regular payment made to someone after they retire, based on their years of work.
- retirement noun The act of leaving your job or career for good, usually after reaching a certain age.
Senses
Rente is used for these senses in English:
- annuity (insurance, pensions) A right to receive amounts of money regularly over a certain fixed period, in perpetuity, or, especially, over the remaining life or lives of one or more beneficiaries.
- pension A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services. [from 17th c.]
- pension (finance) 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. [from 16th c.]
- retirement The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. [from 17th c.]
pension — full definition
- noun A regular payment made to someone after they retire, based on their years of work.
- verb To pay someone a pension, or to force them into retirement with one.
- noun A small guesthouse or hotel, especially in Continental Europe, offering rooms and meals.
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