pensioned
SayPEN-shuhnd/ˈpɛnʃənd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of pension.
The railroad pensioned hundreds of workers during the reorganization.
After the injury, the officer was pensioned off from the police force.
Note
One spelling does the work of both past tense and participle, and it carries both meanings of the verb: granting someone a pension, and making someone retire on one. With be it forms the passive (she was pensioned after the merger). Before a noun it settles into an adjective, as in a pensioned officer, and it can even be graded: more pensioned, most pensioned.
pensioned is a form of pension
pension, verb: To grant a regular retirement payment to someone, often in recognition of their service. Full entry
- Forms
- pensionpensions he/she/itpensioning -ing formpensioned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- pension → pensioned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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