superannuation

Other forms of superannuation

plural

superannuations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about superannuation

What does superannuation mean?

superannuation means "a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in superannuation?

superannuation has 7 syllables: su-pe-ran-nu-a-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for superannuation?

Close synonyms include old-age pension, retirement pension, retirement check, retirement benefit, retirement fund. 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 superannuation a common word?

superannuation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.