All 3 Uses of
pension
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
- But the method that I liked best was that which I observed in my travels in Persia, among the Polylerits, who are a considerable and well-governed people: they pay a yearly tribute to the King of Persia, but in all other respects they are a free nation, and governed by their own laws: they lie far from the sea, and are environed with hills; and, being contented with the productions of their own country, which is very fruitful, they have little commerce with any other nation; and as they, according to the genius of their country, have no inclination to enlarge their borders, so their mountains and the pension they pay to the Persian, secure them from all invasions.†
pension = a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working
- another proposes the hiring the Germans and the securing the Switzers by pensions;†
*pensions = regular payments intended to people to have an income without working
- another thinks that the Prince of Castile is to be wrought on by the hope of an alliance, and that some of his courtiers are to be gained to the French faction by pensions.†
Definition:
a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to have an income without working -- typically during retirement