Pension vs Subsidised - What's the difference?
pension | subsidised |
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.
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.
(dated) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
(archaic) A wage in active service
(subsidise)
that which receives subsidy.
As a noun pension
is guesthouse.As a verb subsidised is
(subsidise).As an adjective subsidised is
that which receives subsidy.pension
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Pensioners depend on their pension to pay the bills
- 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).
Synonyms
* (regularly paid gratuity) superannuation * (boarding house) hotel, hostel , (informal) bed and breakfast * (payment for accommodations) rentDerived terms
* pensionary * pensioner * pension fund * pensionless * full pensionSynonyms
* (to force to retire) pension offDerived terms
* pensionablesubsidised
English
Verb
(head)- The tax payer has always subsidised the delinquents of society
Adjective
(en adjective)- The food is subsidised , so it's much cheaper than elsewhere.