pension off

1. 1.

   let go from employment with an attractive pension

   “The director was pensioned off when he got senile”

   Broaderdisplace
2. 2.

   grant a pension to

   Synonymspension

   Broaderaward

Questions about pension off

What does pension off mean?

pension off means "let go from employment with an attractive pension". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for pension off?

Close synonyms include pension. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pension off a common word?

pension off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.