retirement
An act of retiring; withdrawal.
Other meanings
The state of being retired; seclusion.
The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
Related words
- protirement
- retirement home
- semiretirement
- preretirement
- postretirement
- nonretirement
- unretirement
- microretirement
- miniretirement
- early retirement
- retirement village
- retirement syndrome
Example sentences
Word history
From French "retirement".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “retirement” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.