a payment; a tribute; something paid or given.-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; especially, 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.-a certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.-a boarding house or boarding school in france, belgium, switzerland, etc.-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.