Superannuated vs Pensioned - What's the difference?
superannuated | pensioned |
Obsolete, antiquated.
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* 2009 , Larissa Dubecki, "
* 2010 , Bruce Rich, To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India , Beacon Press (2010), ISBN 9780807095539,
* 2010 , Stuart Mann & Gordon Murray, Art of the Formula 1 Race Car , Motorbooks (2010), ISBN 9780760337318,
Retired or discarded due to age.
(superannuate)
(pension)
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
As verbs the difference between superannuated and pensioned
is that superannuated is past tense of superannuate while pensioned is past tense of pension.As an adjective superannuated
is obsolete, antiquated.superannuated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Sledgehammers and hard drives", The Economist , 1 June 2007:
- Your correspondent has a handful of superannuated computers lying around the home. The sprightliest of the bunch—a 400-megahertz Pentium II that came loaded with Windows NT4.0—has found a new lease on life as a Linux server.
Critic's view", The Age , 24 March 2009:
- To call the sexual politics of Ladette to Lady old-fashioned is an understatement. It's a horrifying revival of superannuated attitudes about women dressed up as an educational excursion into young womanhood that exploits its subjects by loading them up on alcohol when the cameras are rolling.
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- Files written fifteen or twenty years ago on superannuated computers and obsolete operating systems are for practical purposes irretrievable.
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- The 158 was a delicate and not especially sure-handling device, but by now its engine had been modified to produce 250 horsepower, which gave it a decisive speed advantage over the superannuated old clunkers that were predominately arranged against it.
Synonyms
* archaic, dated, out of date, outdated, outmodedDerived terms
* superannuateVerb
(head)pensioned
English
Verb
(head)pension
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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).
