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noun, feminine

pension

/pɑ̃.sjɔ̃/

noun, feminine/pɑ̃.sjɔ̃/plural: pensions

a pension, regularly received payment; a pension, boarding house; a regularly made payment, as admission to certain boarding establishments (notably schools); board; (The services such establishment provides, notably lodging and some meals)

pension à taux pleinfull pension

Inherited from Old French pension, panssion, borrowed from Latin pēnsiōnem (“payment, rent”), from pēnsus, the past participle of pendō (“weigh, pay”).