A regularly paid gratuity paid regularly as benefit due to a person in consideration of past services; notably to one retired from service, on account of retirement age, disability or similar cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers; sometimes passed on to the heirs, or even specifically for them, as to the families of soldiers killed in service, A stated regular allowance by way of patronage or subsidy, e.g. to meritorious artists, or the like, a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working, verb_ grant a pension to, To force someone to retire on a pension, transitive verb_ To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off,