Retirement Definition

rĭ-tīrmənt
noun
Withdrawal from one's occupation or position, especially upon reaching a certain age.
American Heritage
The age at which one withdraws from work or activity.
On reaching retirement, he took up woodworking.
American Heritage
A retiring or being retired; specif., withdrawal from work, business, etc. because of age.
Webster's New World
Privacy; seclusion.
Webster's New World
A place of privacy or seclusion.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Of, having to do with, or for retirement or retired persons.
A retirement community.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Retirement

Noun

Singular:
retirement
Plural:
retirements

Origin of Retirement

  • From French, from retirer (“withdraw", often used reflexively “retire"), from re- + tirer (“draw, tear away") + English suffix -ment.

    From Wiktionary

Retirement Sentence Examples

  • He's a week from retirement and he seems to be something of a maverick.

  • The retirement of the center to the other side of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the different companies did not get mixed.

  • He spent the rest of his life in retirement, dying at Wellington on the 16th of May 1862.

  • The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

  • He'll be at my retirement.

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Words Starting With

RRERET

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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Words Starting With R and Ending With T

Starts With R & Ends With TStarts With RE & Ends With TStarts With R & Ends With NT

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10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With R10 Letter Words Ending With T