Word: Retire
How to pronounce: rɪˈtaɪə
Verb
Definitions:
1. Leave one's job and cease to work, typically upon reaching the normal age for leaving employment.
Example sentences: "He retired from the navy in 1966"
2. Withdraw to or from a particular place.
Example sentences: "She retired into the bathroom with her toothbrush"
3. Withdraw (a bill or note) from circulation or currency.
Example sentences: "Instead, Congress cranked up the printing press and called on the states to levy taxes to retire the bills."
4. Pay off or cancel (a debt)
Example sentences: "The debt is to be retired from state gaming-tax receipts"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A movement in which one leg is bent and raised at right angles to the body until the toe is in line with the knee of the supporting leg.
Example sentences: "The orchestra stopped, and she continued to stay on pointe; sometimes moving from retiré into a la seconde, sometimes from retiré into arabesque."
Synonyms:
withdraw
recede
remove
pull out
go away
leave the service
get away
leave
resign
depart
sack
retreat
fall back
move back
fire
go off
go
terminate
adjourn
discharge
Derivations:
retirement
retiree
retiring
retired
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Retire in Other Languages...
Spanish:
German: Ruhestand
French: Retraite
Italian: Pensione
Turkish: Emekli olmak
