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Noun: superannuation  ,soo-pu(r),a-nyoo'ey-shun
  1. A monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work
    - old-age pension [Brit], retirement pension, retirement check [US], retirement benefit, retirement fund
     
  2. The property of being out of date and not current
    - obsoleteness
     
  3. The act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension)

Derived forms: superannuations

Type of: chuck [Brit, informal], discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, heave-ho [informal], liberation, oldness, pension, release, sack, sacking, severance, the axe [informal], the boot [informal], the chop [Brit, informal]

Encyclopedia: Superannuation