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retirement definition

re·tire·ment (ri tīr′mənt)

noun

  1. a retiring or being retired; specif., withdrawal from work, business, etc. because of age
    1. privacy; seclusion
    2. a place of privacy or seclusion

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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retirement Synonyms

retirement

n.

  1. The act of retiring

    relinquishment, resignation, abandonment, vacating, evacuation, separation, removal, handing over, laying down, egressing, exiting, retreating, withdrawal, going away, leaving, secession, departure, recession, retreat, regression, abdication, severance.

    Antonyms arrival*, entrance*, taking up.

  2. The state of being retired

    seclusion, sequestration, aloofness, apartness, separateness, privacy, concealment, solitude, solitariness, isolation, remoteness, loneliness, quiet, retreat, tranquillity, refuge, serenity, inactivity, superannuation.

    Antonyms exposure*, activity*, association.


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retirement Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • contemplate: He is also keen to help recently retired men and women, and those contemplating retirement, to renew their sense of vocation.

Adjective modifier

  • impending: A 1991 model, this Silver example is now reluctantly offered for sale due to the vendor's impending retirement to Portugal.

Modifies a noun

  • age: Imagine, they'll raise the retirement age to nine hundred.

Noun used with modifier

  • ill-health: The SFO is currently within the target set for small departments for ill-health retirements.

Preposition: from

  • athletics: She afterward announced her retirement from athletics, as European, Olympic and World Champion.

Preposition: by

  • rotation: Furthermore, Dewhurst family board members are exempt from retirement by rotation.
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retirement quotes

Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement.With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of ourcause, each one of us must fight on until the end.

-Haig (of Bemersyde), Douglas Haig, 1st Earl

For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return.

-Milton,John

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