pension off

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Definition

Verb (transitive): 1. To grant a pension to someone, typically upon their retirement: To provide a regular payment to an employee who has stopped working due to age or length of service. 2. To dismiss or retire someone from employment, often with a pension as an incentive: To let an employee go, especially an older one, offering a pension to facilitate their departure.

Usage and Examples
  • The company decided to pension off several long-serving employees with a generous package.
  • After forty years of service, he was pensioned off.
  • The new management pensioned off the older staff to make way for younger recruits.
Advanced Usage
  • The phrasal verb can carry a nuance of being removed from a position, sometimes not entirely voluntarily, but with financial compensation to make the dismissal more acceptable or to avoid controversy.
    • The aging CEO was quietly pensioned off by the board.
Variants and Related Words
  • Pension (n): A regular payment made during a person's retirement.
  • Pension (v): To pay a pension to (someone). (Less common than the phrasal verb).
  • Pensioner (n): A person who receives a pension.
Synonyms
  • Retire (someone)
  • Superannuate (formal)
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Pay off: To dismiss with a final payment. (Can be broader, not specifically linked to retirement pensions).
    • They paid him off to leave the company quietly.
Verb
  1. grant a pension to
  2. let go from employment with an attractive pension
    • The director was pensioned off when he got senile

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