Pension vs. Superannuation

Pension vs. Superannuation — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Pension and Superannuation

Pensionnoun

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.

Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.

Superannuationnoun

A retirement benefit fund, an accumulation of regular deductions from one′s wage or salary while employed and similar regular contributions from the employer, usually administered by an independent entity; a pension.

Pensionnoun

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

A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not (John Irving).

Superannuationnoun

(uncountable) The condition or of being superannuated; old age or obsolescence.

Pensionnoun

(obsolete) A wage or fee.

Superannuationnoun

a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work

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Pensionnoun

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

Superannuationnoun

the property of being out of date and not current

Pensionnoun

A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.

Superannuationnoun

the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension)

Pensionnoun

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

Pensionnoun

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

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Pensionverb

(transitive) To grant a pension to.

Pensionverb

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

Pensionnoun

a regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow them to subsist without working

Pensionverb

grant a pension to