pension off
Send out pensioned
To pension off is to retire someone from employment with a pension payment, often implying they're being eased out due to age or obsolescence: The company pensioned off its older workers.
The phrase extends to discarding anything outdated: Time to pension off that old computer.
British usage favors this form; Americans more often say simply pension.
- retireCease employment permanently
- superannuateRetire due to age
- hang up one's bootsCease professional activity permanently
- gold watchTimepiece of precious metal
- send awayCause to depart
give the axe · give the sack · pink slip · give notice · golden handshake · displace · severance pay · shelve · mothball · retirement fund · early retirement · force out · put out to pasture · kick upstairs · dead wood · annuity · gratuity · furlough
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