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Penchant vs. Pension — What's the Difference?

Penchant vs. Pension — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Penchant and Pension

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Penchant

A definite liking; a strong inclination.

Pension

A pension (, from Latin pensiō, "payment") is a fund into which a sum of money is added during an employee's employment years and from which payments are drawn to support the person's retirement from work in the form of periodic payments. A pension may be a "defined benefit plan", where a fixed sum is paid regularly to a person, or a "defined contribution plan", under which a fixed sum is invested that then becomes available at retirement age.

Penchant

Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
He has a penchant for fine wine.

Pension

A regular payment made by the state to people of or above the official retirement age and to some widows and disabled people
Men can draw a pension from the age of sixty-five

Penchant

A card game resembling bezique.
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Pension

A small hotel or boarding house in France and other European countries.

Penchant

(card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.

Pension

Dismiss someone from employment, typically because of age or ill health, and pay them a pension
He was pensioned off from the army after the war

Penchant

Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.

Pension

A sum of money paid regularly as a retirement benefit or by way of patronage.

Penchant

A game like bézique, or, in the game, any queen and jack of different suits held together.

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).

Penchant

A strong liking;
My own preference is for good literature
The Irish have a penchant for blarney

Pension

Accommodations or the payment for accommodations, especially at a boarding house or small hotel in Europe.

Pension

Room and board.

Pension

To grant a pension to.

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.).

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.

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

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