pensions

noun

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

verb

grant a pension to

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The word pensions breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root pens-, from Latin pendo (“weigh, pay”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.