• a b
  • Log In
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
  • Writing
  • Mobile apps
  • Help
  • ©2017 EdictFree.
    All Rights Reserved.
Vocabulary
  • Topic
Help
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy policy
Mobile apps
  • Android
  • Ios
Bright
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
    • Topic
  • Writing

Free Online Dictionary

The home of living English, with more than 820,000 words, meanings and phrases
All Properties select
District 1 District 2 District 7 More

Longman Dictionary English

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpension somebody/something ↔ off1 BECto make someone leave their job when they are old or ill, and pay them a pension Not everyone wants to be pensioned off at 65.2 informalOLD/NOT YOUNG to get rid of something because it is old or not useful anymore Many of the old ships have been pensioned off. → pension→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
pension off• In three years, just thirty-six months, they would pension him off.• They live hand to mouth and get no pension or help off the state.
From Longman Business Dictionarypension off phrasal verb [transitive] British English informal1 pension somebody → off to make someone who is old or ill leave their job and pay them a pensionHe had worked hard all his life, and in three years they would pension him off.2 pension something → off to get rid of something because it is too old or not useful any moreOld coal-fired power stations will be pensioned off. → pension→ See Verb table
ldoceonline.com
Word of day

May 09, 2025

pencil
noun ˈpensl
Ad
Mobile apps

Browse our dictionary apps today and ensure you are never again lost for words.

Follow
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Find Out More
  • Contact us
  • Privacy policy
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree