retired person
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1.0
- noun
- /rɪˈtaɪrd ˈpɜrsən/
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jubilado
- As a retired person, I enjoy spending my time gardening and traveling.
- a lot of retired people
- number of retired people
- mostly retired people
Examples
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Many retired people had careers that make them well qualified to administer a school volunteer program.
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As a retired person, the effect of catastrophe in the making may not affect me or even many born today.
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A band program can fill an important need for identity in retired persons.
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The temperatures there are very high all summer long, and a lot of the retired people go elsewhere for the summer.
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It's a retired person's nightmare to still need to deal with "rush hour."
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For example, many retired people are Republicans, but not all of them have big enough retirement accounts to pay income taxes.
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The reason for this differential is straightforward: it is easier for retired persons to vote given less time.
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AARP uses the association in people's minds that they are an organization to help retired people.
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Financial planning experts believe a retired person would need about 70% of their working income to live at a comfortable level once they no longer work.
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Currently, 75 percent of mothers with school-age children are employed, so retired persons have become the main source of the nation's three million school volunteers (Fischer & Schaffer, 1993).
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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2.7
A person who has stopped working because of age or choice
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2.0
An older person who is usually retired and often over 60 years old
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2.0
A person who receives regular payments after they stop working
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4.2
A person who gets regular money from the government after they stop working because of age
Antonyms
How Retired
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'retired' means no longer employed and 'person' is a human individual, so their combination yields 'a person who is retired' with no additional idiomatic sense. This straightforward semantic combination follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Retired person comes from the verb retire, which once meant 'to go back' or 'to move away' to a quiet place. Because people would retire from work into a quiet life, a retired person is someone who has 'stopped working'.