Synonyms for pensioned
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : pen-shuh n; French pahn-syawn for 3 |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛn ʃən; French pɑ̃ˈsyɔ̃ for 3 |
Top 10 synonyms for pensioned Other synonyms for the word pensioned
- absent oneself
- ax
- boot
- boot out
- bounce
- bump
- can
- cashier
- defrock
- deny oneself
- depone
- depose
- deselect
- discharge
- disemploy
- disfrock
- displace
- disqualify
- draw back
- drop
- fall back
- fire
- furlough
- get away
- get off
- give ground
- give notice to
- give someone his or her walking papers
- give someone the ax
- give someone the gate
- give someone the pink slip
- give the ax
- give the gate
- give the heave-ho
- give up work
- give walking papers
- give warning
- give way
- go away
- go to bed
- go to one's room
- go to sleep
- hand over
- hit the sack
- impeach
- kick out
- lay off
- leave service
- let go
- let out
- make vacant
- oust
- pension
- pink-slip
- pull back
- pull out
- put away
- put out to pasture
- recall
- release
- repeal
- rescind
- resign
- retire
- retreat
- revoke
- run along
- rusticate
- sack
- secede
- seclude oneself
- send packing
- separate
- sever connections
- shelve
- show someone the door
- shut out
- stop working
- surrender
- suspend
- take off
- terminate
- turn away
- turn in
- unfrock
- unseat
- wash out
- withdraw
- yield
Définition of pensioned
Origin :- mid-14c., "payment for services," especially "reward, payment out of a benefice" (early 14c., in Anglo-Latin), from Old French pension "payment, rent" (13c.) and directly from Latin pensionem (nominative pensio) "a payment, installment, rent," from past participle stem of pendere "pay, weigh" (see pendant). Meaning "regular payment in consideration of past service" first recorded 1520s. Meaning "boarding house, boarding school" first attested 1640s, from French, and usually in reference to places in France or elsewhere on the Continent.
- As in pink-slip : verb dismiss
- As in superannuate : verb retire
- As in dismiss : verb remove from job, responsibility
- If his ship is lost, his wages are safe; and if he gets hurt, he is pensioned.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- His children are pensioned into the third and fourth and fortieth generation.
- Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
- They are well paid while able to work and pensioned when they reach old age.
- Extract from : « Birdseye Views of Far Lands » by James T. Nichols
- They say he was going to be down on all you pensioned gentlemen—what?
- Extract from : « In the Mayor's Parlour » by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
- There is reason to believe that he pensioned off the ejected inmates.
- Extract from : « The Strand District » by Sir Walter Besant
- He's pensioned off—twelve shillin's a week, and his cot and firin'.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer » by George Sturt (AKA George Bourne)
- They are pensioned by us while they are leading her to alliance with Austria.
- Extract from : « The Hero of the People » by Alexandre Dumas
- After he was pensioned, in 1871, he chose Dresden as his residence.
- Extract from : « The Violoncello and Its History » by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski
- It is said that she has pensioned him offhe is to keep to his hemisphere, and she is to keep to hers.
- Extract from : « Michael and His Lost Angel » by Henry Arthur Jones
- They are all 'complete invalids,' or who have been pensioned on account of their age.
- Extract from : « Life in a German Crack Regiment » by Wolf Ernst Hugo Emil Baudissin
Antonyms for pensioned
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