Unemployed vs Pension - What's the difference?
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Having no profession (despite being able and willing to work).
Having no use, not doing work
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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 nouns the difference between unemployed and pension
is that unemployed is unemployed people while 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.As an adjective unemployed
is having no profession (despite being able and willing to work).As a verb pension is
to grant a pension.unemployed
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Adjective
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Synonyms
* (having no job) jobless, out of work (used only after the noun ), out-of-workUsage notes
* This is not a true noun. It is an example of a "fused-head" construction in which an adjective (or possessive or determiner) is assumed to have fused with an omitted noun which is grammatically required.Synonyms
* joblesspension
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).
