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Pension vs Royalty - What's the difference?

pension | royalty |

As nouns the difference between pension and royalty

is that pension is a 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 while royalty is the rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.

As a verb pension

is to grant a pension.

pension

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A 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.
  • ''Pensioners depend on their pension to pay the bills
  • A stated regular allowance by way of patronage or subsidy, e.g. to meritorious artists, or the like.
  • Accommodations or the payment for accommodations, especially at a boarding house or small hotel in Europe.
  • A boarding house or small hotel, as in continental Europe, which offers lodging and certain meals and services.
  • 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).
  • (dated) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
  • (archaic) A wage in active service
  • Synonyms

    * (regularly paid gratuity) superannuation * (boarding house) hotel, hostel , (informal) bed and breakfast * (payment for accommodations) rent

    Derived terms

    * pensionary * pensioner * pension fund * pensionless * full pension

    Verb

    (en verb) (transitive)
  • To grant a pension
  • To force someone to retire on a pension.
  • Synonyms

    * (to force to retire) pension off

    Derived terms

    * pensionable

    royalty

    English

    Noun

    (royalties)
  • The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
  • People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
  • A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right
  • The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights on his property.
  • (by extension) payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
  • (poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
  • References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----