Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of retiring.
- n. The state of being retired.
- n. Withdrawal from one's occupation, business, or office.
- n. Withdrawal into privacy or seclusion.
- n. A place of privacy or seclusion; a retreat. See Synonyms at solitude.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of retiring or withdrawing from action, service, use, sight, public notice, or company; withdrawal: as, the retirement of an army from battle; the retirement of bonds; the retirement of invalid soldiers from service; retirement into the country.
- n. The state of being retired from society or public life; seclusion; a private manner of life.
- n. The state of being abstracted or withdrawn.
- n. A retired or sequestered place; a place to which one withdraws for privacy or freedom from public or social cares.
- n. Recovery; retrieval.
- n. Synonyms Seclusion, Loneliness, etc. See solitude.
Wiktionary
- n. An act of retiring; withdrawal.
- n. uncountable The state of being retired; seclusion.
- n. The portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
- n. obsolete A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion.
- n. Archaic A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
WordNet 3.0
- n. withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
- n. withdrawal from your position or occupation
- n. the state of being retired from one's business or occupation
Etymologies
- From French, from retirer ("withdraw”, often used reflexively “retire"), from re- + tirer ("draw, tear away") + English suffix -ment. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For 401K's, only the final income withdrawn from the account in retirement is subject to taxation.”
Economists' Voice on Fiscal Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The inflation rate for rent (homeowners or usually ok), and medical expenses in retirement is far higher than the CPI.”
Social SecurityAnalysis, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Spending your own assets in retirement is tricky enough.”
“I'm encouraging women to replace the word retirement with financial independence.”
“Please don't mention the word retirement in my presence.”
“The net result is that the phrase "retirement development" now encompasses a far broader range of habitats than it ever used to.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“I have already assembled what I call my retirement library.”
“Neuroplastic discoveries about adult development are a good reason for the word "retirement" to itself be retired.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘retirement’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...grow, greatest country, greatest, grow the economy, great nation, great decisions, great, government, great NATIONAL su..., good times, good job, good and generous... and 751 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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-ment
result; product; instrument; means
pavement, adornment, measurement, disappointment, appointment, reappointment, government, management, development, department, movement, agreement and 40 more...
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ENVI - emission trading (ETS)
Emission Trading ..., backloading, ETS, carbon price signal, grandfathering, retirement, stand-alone set-a..., set-aside, linear reduction ..., auction time profile, Auctioning Regula..., auctioned emissio... and 12 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Prosie: Obama's Inaugural Address
In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling.
My fellow citizens: I stand here ...we did not turn b..., when we were tested, what storms may come, icy currents, virtue, hope, alarmed, depth of winter, revolution, snow, enemy, abandoned and 257 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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MEC2 Lesson 124
nicely, adorable, hang around, Pet Finders, put up, flyer, claim, whine, roasting pan, doggy, shelter, animal shelter and 23 more...
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Words Against Bush (and/or his admini...
These are words that have been used, might have been used, or could be used in association with the current president and/or his administration. They are only listed as a device to remind the read...
cowboy, naive, ignorant, vengeful, vindictive, grudge, petulant, angry, bully, immature, inexperienced, afraid and 85 more...
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Action Movie in 50 Words
sequel, decorated, reunification, victory, dismember, electrocute, shark, decapitate, cavalry, peripetia, throttle, blood and 38 more...
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Old people words
rapscalion, haberdashery, poppycock, whippersnapper, codger, fogey, senile, alzheimer's, hoary, feeble, decrepit, battleaxe and 7 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for retirement.

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