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English Dictionary: superannuation by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
superannuation
n
  1. a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work
    Synonym(s): old-age pension, retirement pension, retirement check, retirement benefit, retirement fund, superannuation
  2. the property of being out of date and not current
    Synonym(s): obsoleteness, superannuation
  3. the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
               The world itself is in a state of superannuation.
                                                                              --Cowper.
  
               Slyness blinking through the watery eye of
               superannuation.                                       --Coleridge.
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