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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work;
[syn: old-age pension, retirement pension, retirement check, retirement benefit, retirement fund, superannuation]

2. the property of being out of date and not current;
[syn: obsoleteness, superannuation]

3. the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Superannuation \Su`per*an`nu*a"tion\, n. The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude. [1913 Webster] The world itself is in a state of superannuation. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

superannuation n 1: a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work [syn: old-age pension, retirement pension, retirement check, retirement benefit, retirement fund, superannuation] 2: the property of being out of date and not current [syn: obsoleteness, superannuation] 3: the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension)