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RETIRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
No longer active in your work or profession
Classified under:
Similar:
inactive (not engaged in full-time work)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb retire
Context examples:
At his wife’s entreaty he had just retired from the ring, and was uncertain how he should employ himself.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A cottage in some retired village would be ecstasy.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Captain Smollett is now retired from the sea.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I've rented a little room out in North Oakland, retired neighborhood and all the rest, you know, and I've bought an oil-burner on which to cook.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She took me in her own hand, and carried me to the king, who was then retired to his cabinet.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Retired worn out; slept soundly; awaked by mate telling me that both man of watch and steersman missing. Only self and mate and two hands left to work ship.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
We were a family of tin-miners at Redruth, but we sold our venture to a company, and so retired with enough to keep us.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The population of retired people, generally over 62
(Older Population, NCI Thesaurus)
The old term Side Effect is retired and should not be used.
(Expected Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)
Five hundred paces from the English the two great bodies of horse crossed each other, and, sweeping round in a curve, retired in feigned confusion towards their centre.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
