Pension vs. Superannuation: What's the Difference?
Pension and Superannuation Definitions
Pension
A sum of money paid regularly as a retirement benefit or by way of patronage.
Superannuation
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.
Pension
A boarding house or small hotel in Europe
"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).
Superannuation
(uncountable) The condition or of being superannuated; old age or obsolescence.
Pension
Accommodations or the payment for accommodations, especially at a boarding house or small hotel in Europe.
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Superannuation
The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude.
The world itself is in a state of superannuation.
Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation.
Pension
Room and board.
Superannuation
A monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work
Pension
To grant a pension to.
Superannuation
The property of being out of date and not current
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Pension
To retire or dismiss with a pension
"Some French farmers suggest that the Government pension off the older and less efficient farmers" (E.J. Dionne, Jr.).
Superannuation
The act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension)
Pension
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.
Pension
A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
Pension
(obsolete) A wage or fee.
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Pension
(obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
Pension
A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
Pension
A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.
Pension
(obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Pension
(transitive) To grant a pension to.
Pension
(transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
Pension
A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
The stomach's pension, and the time's expense.
Pension
A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; also, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.
To all that kept the city pensions and wages.
Pension
A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
Pension
A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Pension
To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; - sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.
One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles.
Pension
A regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow them to subsist without working
Pension
Grant a pension to
