retirement

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In view of the increasing cost of her responsibilities in Europe and in Asia, England has a great deal to gain by concentration and by a partial retirement from the American continent, so far as such a retirement could be effected without being recreant to her responsibilities towards Canada.

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  1. noun The act of retiring.
  2. noun The state of being retired.
  3. noun Withdrawal from one's occupation, business, or office.
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  • Naturally, a retirement is a mistake in the eyes of such a man; but oh, the pathos of such a position: that in a world of so much interest, in an age so fascinatingly full of things worth doing, a man should have allowed himself to become a slave to his business, and should imagine no other man happy without the same claims! —  A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
  • The work to which he chiefly devoted himself in his retirement was the completion of his Numerical Lunar Theory. —  Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
  • I hope you have all realized your retirement is already over and done with. —  bison survival blog
  • Even our retirement is a joke, waiting to collapse any day now. —  Lone Star Times
  • The article also eluded that Hyde simply retired from GMAC after decades of service; lacking any hint that the circumstances surrounding his retirement were also controversial. —  ILLINOIZE
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  1. from Old French (and F.) retirement = Spanish retiramiento = Portuguese retiramento = Italian ritiramento; as retire + -ment.
 

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