Meaning

2 senses

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, uncountable, usually)A retirement benefit fund, an accumulation of regular deductions from one′s wage or salary while employed and similar regular contributions from the employer, usually administered by an independent entity; a pension.

  2. (uncountable, usually)The condition or of being superannuated; old age or obsolescence.

More definitions
  • the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension)
  • the property of being out of date and not current
  • a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Many people find that their superannuation is not sufficient for them to live comfortably after retirement.

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

From superannuate + -ion, from superannuated.

From superannuate + -ion, from superannuated.

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Forms

plural: superannuations
Singularsuperannuation

uncountable

Synonyms

32 synonyms
pensionB2superA1retirementB2ageA1elderlinessdisusechair dayscodgerhoodeldfogeydomgeezerdomgolden yearsold ageoldhood
Close in meaning
  • the property of being out of date and not current:obsoleteness
  • a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work:old-age pensionretirement pensionretirement checkretirement benefitretirement fund

Word family

2 related words
Relatedsuperannuate
Derivedsuperfund

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
supsuperA1superbB2superblysupercharge

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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