🙈 Shy and quiet 👋 Leaving a job

retiring

3.6

About to leave a job because of reaching the usual age for stopping work

adjective
/rɪˈtaɪərɪŋ/

: jubilado

As she approaches her 65th birthday, Maria is retiring from her role as a senior manager.

It was a bit late now anyway, he said they rang me up and said what are you doing semi retired?

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Examples

There was some other news on this topic this week where the long time PR director Brian Del Rizzo is retiring from NVIDIA.
Well, apparently Pierre Cosette is retiring from producing the Grammy Awards this year.
Now this is all happening as I'm retiring from Shadow Crew.
Justice Breyer retiring later this year.
And and that whole thing, that whole experience of retiring as a Dallas Cowboy was a tremendous experience.
Jim Green, you, you, you, you come to us as a planetary scientist from way back and you're you're chief scientist at NASA and you're retiring next year.
After thirty years of dedicated service, John is finally retiring from his position as principal.
The company organized a farewell party for its retiring employees to celebrate their contributions.

Synonyms

outgoing

vsretiring

54 3.6

Leaving a place, office, or job and going away

emphasizes leaving tied to reaching the usual age or a recent exit

retired

vsretiring

5 1.1

No longer working, usually because of age or after a long career

includes people who are about to leave or have just left because of age

How Soon

retired

5 1.1

retiring

3.6

to retire

874 2.0

nonretirement

6.1

Surface Forms

retiring positive

Morphology

retiring = retire (transparent) = retire + ing

Standard participial adjective formed from 'retire' indicating someone who is leaving or has just left a position; meaning follows directly from the verb.

Etymology

The word retiring comes from re- 'back' and a root meaning 'pull', so it originally meant 'to pull back'. That's why a retiring person is someone who is leaving a job or stepping back from a position.