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pensión

pension

noun pen-SYOHN Less Common
Travel & Places Accommodation

Origin: From Latin pensio (payment, rent).

Also means

guesthouse

Usage Note

Pensión has two main meanings: a retirement or disability pension (cobrar la pensión, to collect one's pension) and a budget guesthouse or boarding house (una pensión barata, a cheap guesthouse). Context makes the sense clear. The plural pensiones loses its written accent because the stress is then regular on the penultimate syllable.

Examples

"Mis abuelos viven de su pensión."

Natural Translation

My grandparents live on their pension.

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