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retire | American Dictionary

retire
verb
us/rɪˈtɑɪər/

retireverb (STOP WORKING)

[ I/T ]
to leave your job or stop working because of having reached a particular age or because of ill health, or to cause someone or something to stop being employed or used:
[ I ]He worked in television after retiring from baseball.
[ I ]I’ll be retiring soon.
[ T ]The aircraft was retired in 1990.

retireverb (LEAVE A PLACE)

[ I ]fml
to leave a room or group of people and go somewhere quiet or private:
The judge retired to her study to review the case.
[ I ]fml
To retire also means to go to bed.

retired

adjective[ not gradable ]us/rɪˈtɑɪərd/
He is a retired airline pilot.

retire | Business English

retire
verb
uk /rɪˈtaɪər/us
[ I ] HR, WORKPLACE
to leave your job or stop working, usually because of your age or ill health:
She has no plans to retire.
retire from sthJenkins retires from the firm this year.
retire as sthElkin has retired as a director after 12 years on the board
retire at sthCan I get hold of the cash in my pension fund before I retire at 65?
James had to retire early after suffering three heart attacks in 2007.
[ T,often passive ] HR, WORKPLACE, MANAGEMENT
if an employer retires an employee, they make the employee leave their job, usually because they are near the age at which they would normally stop working, or because they are ill:
He was retired early by his firm.
Companies typically retire workers at 60 and then hire about half of them back, often at 50-70% of their previous pay.
[ T ] FINANCE
to pay back a debt or loan completely:
The funds were used to retire debt and to finance expansion.
Even after the state reduced benefits to workers and raised taxes on employers, it took until 2010 to retire that loan.
[ T ]
to take a machine or piece of equipment out of use because it is old and no longer useful:
The European-made Concorde was retired from British and French service in 2005.
Among the other measures is a $35 rebate to retire older refrigerators for newer, more efficient ones.

Examples of retire

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While some retired to a comfortable country-scholar life, others devoted themselves to research and education.
Much of the research on retirement has focused on loss of identity and self-esteem by the retiring individual.
Figure 9 illustrates what such a system might look like for those retiring in 2018.
Nevertheless, the ontology operates, needs support, is maintained and is retired simultaneously with the whole system.
Retirees retiring in later months for the sample had higher relative deferred compensation.
Women who had retired for health reasons were more than disadvantaged by the same conditions.
Two of the three judges who delivered dissenting verdicts in this contempt case have since been retired, for technically legitimate but involuntary reasons.
They allowed retired and elderly couples or single people to vacate cottages needed for working families, without obliging them to leave the village altogether.
Moreover, it seems that male retirees perceive the exchange of psychological resources in the family differently from husbands who have not yet retired.
I am sure that most people agree that she never really retired.
We expect older plans will have higher costs because, typically, retirees cost more than current workers.
She decided that she was not prepared to spend extra time travelling, and retired early.
Both voluntary early retirement and retiring on health grounds had a significant effect on attitudes to retirement (positively and negatively respectively).
First, the increase in the working period reduces the length of time when retired, and therefore reduces the incentive to save.
Due to rising costs in public spending for retirees the system had to undergo several reforms.
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