A Topical Dictionary: Search for retirement

Dictionary Results For "retirement" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

From retire + suffix -ment.

Noun

An act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
: A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.

Synonyms

Related terms

retire

Translations

German: Rente , Ruhestand

German: Abgeschiedenheit

: n. retirada, isolamento, aposentadoria

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Retirement \Re*tire"ment\, n. [Cf. F. retirement.]
1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired;
withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
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O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline.
--Goldsmith.
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Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.
--Thomson.
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2. A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one
withdraws or retreats; a private abode. [Archaic]
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This coast full of princely retirements for the
sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the
plantations. --Evelyn.
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Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus.
--Addison.
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Syn: Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion;
privacy. See Solitude.
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WordNet retirement
n 1: the state of being retired from one's business or occupation
2: withdrawal from your position or occupation
3: withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; "a religious
retreat" [syn: retreat]

Moby Dictionary
Jim Crow , abandonment , abdication , abstention , abstinence ,
acquitment , acquittal , acquittance , aloofness , amortization ,
amortizement , anonymity , apartheid , apartness , backwardness ,
bashfulness , binder , blankness , cash , cash payment , cashiering ,
chilliness , clearance , closed meeting , coldness , confidentiality ,
confidentialness , conge , constraint , convenience , coolness ,
debt service , decampment , deconsecration , defrayal , defrayment ,
defrocking , demission , departure , deposal , deposit , deposition ,
deprivation , desuetude , detachment , dethronement , disbarment ,
disbarring , disbursal , discharge , discreetness , discretion ,
discrownment , disemployment , disengagement , disenthronement ,
dismissal , displacement , displacing , distance , disuse , doling out ,
down payment , drumming out , earnest , earnest money , ease , egress ,
emeritus status , escape , evacuation , excommunication ,
executive session , exit , exodus , expressionlessness , expulsion ,
fallback , firing , flight , forced resignation , forced separation ,
free time , freedom , frigidity , frostiness , furloughing , getaway ,
going , goof-off time , guardedness , hegira , hire purchase ,
hire purchase plan , iciness , idle hours , impassiveness ,
impassivity , impeachment , impersonality , inaccessibility ,
incognito , installment , installment plan , interest payment ,
introversion , isolation , isolationism , kicking upstairs , layoff ,
leaving , leisure , liquidation , modesty , monthly payments ,
never-never , nonemployment , nonprevalence , nonuse , obsolescence ,
obsoleteness , obsoletion , obsoletism , odd moments , ousting ,
overthrow , overthrowal , parting , passing , paying , paying off ,
paying out , paying up , payment , payment in kind , payoff ,
pensioning off , pink slip , prepayment , privacy , private conference ,
privatism , privatization , pullback , pullout , purge , quarantine ,
quarterly payments , quittance , recedence , receding , recess ,
recession , reclusion , reculade , regular payments , relinquishment ,
remittance , remoteness , removal , repose , repression , reserve ,
reservedness , resignation , rest , restraint , reticence , reticency ,
retiral , retractation , retractility , retraction , retreat ,
retrocedence , rustication , satisfaction , seclusion , secrecy ,
segregation , semiretirement , separation , sequestration , settlement ,
sinking-fund payment , spare time , splendid isolation , spot cash ,
standoffishness , subduedness , superannuation , suppression ,
surplusing , suspension , the ax , the boot , the bounce , the gate ,
the sack , ticket , time , time to kill , time to spare , unaffability ,
unapproachability , unchurching , uncongeniality ,
undemonstrativeness , unexpansiveness , unfrocking , unprevalence ,
unseating , voluntary resignation , walking papers , walkout ,
weekly payments , withdrawal , withdrawment , withdrawnness