to retire

Examples

• All

• Or you can make people retire later.

  Harvard University

• You got rich, you had a good run, and now it's time to retire.

  You Kill Me (2007)

• Her husband had retired four years earlier from the post office.

  Fiction book (2001)

• And how did it feel when you did end up retiring from the NBA?

• And under federal law, with few exceptions, it's illegal to require employees to retire at a specified age.

  Academic text (2001)

• We have a huge baby boomer group of people that are retiring on nothing.

• Friends exerted their influence on his behalf, and he retired from the army with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The company decided to retire employees over the age of 65 to make way for younger workers.

• After many years in the profession, she plans to retire from teaching next summer.

• He was honored during a ceremony when he chose to retire after serving in the military for over two decades.

Synonyms

S

to superannuate

vsto retire

• Formal

9.9

To retire someone from a job because they are old or cannot work

is used more broadly for leaving a job not only for age or incapacity

P

to pension off

vsto retire

• UK

5.8

Make someone leave their job and give them a pension because they are old or sick

does not require giving regular payments and can follow various events

Antonyms

R

to retain

236 3.4

To keep having something such as a job or possession

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology