retirement community
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3.0
- noun
- /rɪˈtaɪərmənt kəˈmjunɪti/
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comunidad de jubilados
- She feels at home in her retirement community, where many of her friends live nearby.
- continuing-care retirement community
- retirement community and nursing homes
- living in a retirement community
Examples
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For several years, she had lived in a retirement community.
Fiction book (1992) -
It's one of these new retirement communities they built down on the Gulf.
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I'm one of the normal people in town who lives in a retirement community.
Blog text (8) -
This being a retirement community, that narrows the field.
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One of the reasons they had moved to this new retirement community, Sierra del Monte, was the splendid exercise facilities.
Fiction book (1998) -
Some retirees may decide that moving to an age-restricted, assisted-living retirement community is desirable.
Academic text (2011) -
Also, Elinor Gerber gives an enthusiastic rendering of the diverse musical activities she found in her retirement community.
Academic text (1992) -
My grandparents recently moved to a retirement community that offers many recreational activities.
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The retirement community provides services like transportation and meal plans for its residents.
Synonyms
A place where older people live and get help and join activities
How Assisted
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward noun-noun combination: 'retirement' (the period after leaving work) + 'community' (a group or place where people live together), so its meaning — a community for retired people — is directly derivable from the parts. This compositional pattern is common across languages and in English, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Retirement community comes from the idea of a place where retirement means 'leaving work' and community means a group of homes and people. Imagine older people living together with services and activities, so the phrase means a residential place for people who have stopped full-time work.