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SUPERANNUATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("superannuation" is a kind of...):
discharge; dismissal; dismission; firing; liberation; release; sack; sacking (the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart))
Derivation:
superannuate (retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of being out of date and not current
Synonyms:
obsoleteness; superannuation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("superannuation" is a kind of...):
oldness (the quality of being old; the opposite of newness)
Derivation:
superannuate (become obsolete)
superannuate (declare to be obsolete)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work
Synonyms:
old-age pension; retirement benefit; retirement check; retirement fund; retirement pension; superannuation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("superannuation" is a kind of...):
pension (a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working)
