retirementn.
/rᵻˈtʌɪəm(ə)nt/, U.S. /rəˈtaɪ(ə)rm(ə)nt/, /riˈtaɪ(ə)rm(ə)nt/ 1. † b. A receding part; a recess. Obsolete.
a. The action or an act of falling back or retreating from a place or position (now chiefly in military contexts). Also: the action of receding; movement back or away.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > retiring, withdrawing, or retreating
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1536 King Henry VIII Let. 1 Nov. in Camden Misc. (1992) XXXI. 56 In what sorte the said rebells thus retired do use themselves now upon theire retirement.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 5 I beseech your maiestie make vp, Least your retirement do amaze your friends. View more context for this quotation
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 19 Against reiterated scandals and seducements which never cease, much more can no other remedy or retirement be found but absolute departure.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxviii. 240 A sort of moodie..consciences; apt to engage thir Leaders into great and dangerous affaires past retirement, and then..to betray them basely.
1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style of Script. (1675) 33 Those armies would probably hinder the counselled retirement.
1716 A.M.P. Du Noyer Lett. Lady at Paris (ed. 2) I. ix. 77 The Count de Ganges his Brother..accompanied him in his Retirement.
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxiii. 326 On the retirement of the Lacedæmonian force, the Samian exiles were left destitute.
1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (1878) iii. ii. 404 The approach and retirement are more readily appreciated than is a simple change of size.
1900 E. O'Connor Nature's Revelations Addenda 3 The seas..are kept in constant internal ferment, which by counteraction compels a regularity of motion in ebb, and flow, rise, and fall advancement, and retirement of such extreme precision.
1918 Earl Haig Order to Brit. Troops 12 Apr. in Independent 27 Apr. 158/3 Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement.
1954 G. Salvemini & I. M. Rawson French Revol. 322 The Prussians,..deceived by the rumour of a French retirement towards Châlons, swung round Mount Yvron.
2004 T. Poulos Extreme War 26 A continuous line could be formed by the advance of the second line or the retirement of the first line.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > a receding part
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > niche
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1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. viii. 71v/2 The height of the semi-circular retirements..was only equal to their breadth [It. L'altezza del mezzo cerchio di questi gradi da sedere..era quanto la sua larghezza; L. Altitudo emicicli istius sessionis..tanta erat quanta latitudo].
1830 W. M. Leake Trav. Morea II. xix. 353 There is a retirement in the wall, which serves in aid of the semicircular bastion in covering the approach to the postern of the lower inclosure.
1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xiv. 159 What if he really were getting absurd notions and ways in the owl-like recesses and retirements of his study—growing rusty, unfit for civilized life?
1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland i. i. 5 At a distance you see none of these (unless indeed your sun shines bright upon them revealing the projections and retirements by means of light and shade).
2. † c. A period spent in seclusion or privacy. Also: a period spent in recreation. Obsolete.† d. An activity undertaken in leisure time; a pastime. Obsolete.
a. The state or condition of living apart from society; seclusion; privacy. Frequently in in retirement.In quot. 1603: hibernation.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [noun]
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun]
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1603 A. Munday tr. F. Citois True Hist. Mayden of Confolens f. 44 Beares doe not eate any thing, during the time of their winter retirement.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 130 For certaine words he spake against your Grace In your retirment, I had swing'd him soundly. View more context for this quotation
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 17 They are one thing in their retirement, another on the stage of publick view.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 72 They liv'd two Years after this in perfect Retirement.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 132 Domitian..continued several days in sullen retirement.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 195 As the Duchess lived in close retirement, she was little surprised at this.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues III. 323 [He] is reluctantly drawn from his retirement to defend his old master.
1932 E. Bevan Christianity ix. 191 Jesuits were trained by a severe discipline, not to live in retirement from the world, but to mingle with the world in order to conquer it for the Church.
1971 E. Mavor Ladies of Llangollen ix. 171 They would contrast the Ladies' small splendour in 1809 with the protested retirement of their early days.
2004 S. D. Hoffert Jane Grey Swisshelm 204 She did not, as she implied, spend the 1870s and 1880s living in quiet retirement at Swissvale, dwelling on memories of the past.
b. A secluded or private place; a retreat. Also in extended use. Now rare.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [noun]
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retraite1814
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hideaway1930
1603 A. Munday tr. F. Citois True Hist. Mayden of Confolens f. 19 As for them, which are called Swallowes of the Sea-coasts, they withdraw themselues to the sides of Riuers, Lakes, Marishes, and of the Seas, where the Rocks doe serue them for a retirement.
1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 320 Royall castles or palaces..as the priuate retirements of the King.
1670 E. Maynwaring Pharmacopœian Physician's Repos. (new ed.) 57 This Medicine..searcheth the most intimate recesses, and closest retirements of our bodies.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 259 Decoy-Ducks..will bring whole Flights of Fowl to their Retirements.
1772 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) IV. 131 Exmouth; where he has, as they say, a sweet country retirement.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 638 The gardens..were covetable retirements.
1850 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles (ed. 3) xix. 322 He..withdraws..to his safer retirements in the immediate neighbourhood of the sea of Galilee.
a1894 R. B. W. Noel Coll. Poems (1902) i. i. 217 I won Her trustful to conceal our nuptial bond In a remote retirement.
1904 M. W. Pickthall Enid xxxiii. 281 Blaming him for keeping his wife mewed up in a retirement as remote and unwholesome as the bottom of a well.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > period of
retirement1632
1632 Earl of Strafford Let. to Earl of Carlisle 24 Oct. (P.R.O. SP 16/224) f. 118 In my cheefest Exaltation before men, and my fullest contentmentt in my inmost retirementts.
1668 J. Dryden Secret-love i. iii. 8 It is a sawcy boldness thus to press On my retirements.
a1708 W. Beveridge Private Thoughts Relig. (1709) 171 All the secret Thoughts, the inward Motions and Retirements of my Soul..are exactly known..before him.
1738 tr. S. Guazzo Art of Conversat. 22 Those who are in pursuit of Learning, seek it..in their Studies and Retirements.
1799 C. B. Brown Ormond xv. 177 Why did you thus unceremoniously intrude upon my retirements?
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod Introd. 1 When we follow them into their retirements..we are most likely to see them in their true state.
1852 Ld. Cockburn Life Jeffrey I. 270 Dearly did he enjoy these retirements.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > [noun]
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1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie Ded. sig. A3 The Worke then of these Lines, is to lay prostrate at Your Feet..the Retirements of Your Humble Servant in the Last Recesse.
1651 A. Weamys Contin. Sydney's Arcadia 178 Urania..was missing, not to publick Pastorals, nor yet solitarie Retirements, but by the soul practises of a Knight..who violently carried her away.
1666 J. Beale Let. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 186 I knowe no other shelter from the apprehension of our horrid warres, but only by a more serious diversion to Theology, & Philosophy; That the nearer the horrors do approach us, the more attentively we may indulge thiese retirements.
3. † d. An aloof or reserved attitude; a distance. Obsolete. rare.
a. The action or an act of retreating into seclusion, quiet, or privacy. Also (now usually) with from, into, to. Also figurative.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > the or an act of
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1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. A3v This to auoide, I haue for my Image there in my absence appointed my brother, and vndertooke this priuate retirement.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 59 Any retyrement, any sequestration, From open Haunts and Popularitie. View more context for this quotation
a1679 M. Poole Annot. Holy Bible (1683) I. sig. Gggggg3 A Correction of himself, for his impatient Motions or Speeches, and his Retirement to God for Relief, under these perplexing and sadding Thoughts.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xix. 112 In this retirement of the Mind from the Senses, it often retains a yet more loose and incoherent manner of thinking.
1722 E. Haywood Brit. Recluse (1725) 9 The only way to attain true Content, was in an absolute Retirement from the World, and a Disregard of every Thing in it.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 12 The first interruptions to the happiness he had known since his retirement, were occasioned by the death of his two sons.
1829 H. Marriott Fourth Course Pract. Serm. 112 The evangelist carries us to the knowledge of His retirement into solitude for the purpose of private devotion.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §1. 453 In Milton we note..a proud retirement from the meaner and coarser life around him.
1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 157 A proper retirement from society is due to it.
1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. v. 312 Following brief retirement to a Buddhist monastery upon his death, she became in turn Kao-tsung's concubine and Empress.
2003 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 33 153 Retirement from the responsibilities of a secular priest to the reclusory at Sheen.
b. The action of going to bed, or to rest.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [noun] > action of going to bed or lying down
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1679 tr. M.-M. de La Fayette Princess of Cleves ii. 119 She was not able to stay at the Queen's Lodgings; but went home, though long before her usual hour of retirement.
1765 Parasite I. vii. 35 The Hour of Retirement now approached, and they were shewn to their respective Apartments.
1794 J. Lettice Lett. Tour Scotl. ix. 170 After this agreeable entertainment, followed supper, and retirement to bed at an early hour.
1836 Missionary Herald (Boston) Nov. 506/1 I reached Retirement before night, almost exhausted with fatigue.
1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall II. xiv. 295 As the usual hour of retirement approached, I dried my eyes.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xi. 173 There was no time for normal conversation between their arrival at the hotel and their retirement to bed.
1966 D. J. Chitty Desert City ii. 26 There seems now to have been a time for conversation, strictly confined to the subject of the instruction received, before retirement to sleep.
2006 A. Calder in D. Bradby & A. Calder Cambr. Compan. Molière vii. 98 The levé du roi and the petit couché (the ceremonies of the King's rising and his retirement to bed).
c. The action of returning to a place visited habitually or frequently, usually for privacy or rest.
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1724 Pharmacopæia Venerea 30 Whoever omits the Use of this..must..be fond of..a long Series of Pain, Trouble, Anxiety, & Uneasyness, instead of Retirement to their chamber..by themselves alone..to Use this Lotion.
1828 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 3rd Ser. I. 348 Retirement to her dressing-room might afford an unsuspected opportunity of talking to Davis.
1838 Sc. Christian Herald 3 Feb. 67/2 I remember his constant retirement to his room.
1902 E. Fuller John Malcolm vi. 54 He did not like that retirement to the library every day after dinner.
1957 H. G. Wright Boccacio in Eng. iii. 127 He devises a better pretext than was to be found in the Decameron for Sismond's dismissal of her attendants and retirement to her chamber.
1999 D. J. Lorenzo Trad. & Rhetoric of Right 207 Even Aurobindo's retirement to his room was portrayed as a special kind of activity.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability
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1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 114 Their lieutenants..observe too rude a retirement towards the English.
1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xxvi. 392 There is an inwardness and a retirement about it [sc. the Church], even in its visibleness.
4. † c. The number of people retiring in a particular period. Obsolete. rare.
a. The state or condition of having left office, employment, or service permanently, now esp. on reaching pensionable age; the period of a person's life after retiring from office or employment. Also: the state of having withdrawn permanently from one's usual sphere of activity. Frequently in in (one's) retirement.Common from the mid 18th cent.early, pre-retirement, etc.: see the first element.
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1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis i. vi. 16 They that might goe off from such imployment to a glorious retyrement, had rather bee disgracefully driuen, than goe quietly.
1716 G. Crawfurd Peerage of Scotl. 402/1 He was a member of the Convention of Estates, which he left when he perceived they would forfeit King James, and has never since been concerned in any publick Affairs..; but in his Retirement has greatly improved his natural Parts.
1764 Gen. Mag. Arts & Sci. Apr. 177 The father had served in the army, which he quitted, and in his retirement studied mathematics.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxiv. 461 His father..enjoyed, in honourable retirement, the fruit of his long services.
1807 Monthly Mirror Mar. 218 Mrs. Didier..has retired from the mimic scene, after a service of forty years, to enjoy the fruits of her long labour in a happy retirement.
1871 A. B. Mitford Tales Old Japan I. 99 After..the abolition of the Shogunate, he accompanied the last of the Shoguns in his retirement.
1914 E. von Arnim Pastor's Wife x. 110 Mrs. Bullivant presently saw her being talked to by one who had once been a general but now in retirement wreaked his disciplines on bees.
1956 R. I. Moncrieffe & D. Pottinger Blood Royal 54 Others contain ‘grace and favour’ apartments, for rewarding distinguished servants of the country in their retirement.
1988 G. Sayer Jack xii. 133 He was unhappy in his retirement. He had no idea what to do with himself.
2001 N.Y. Times 22 July ii. 9/4 His character..is an East End London hoodlum who..has been spending his retirement baking in the Spanish sun.
b. The action or an act of leaving office, employment, or service permanently, now esp. on reaching pensionable age. Also: the action or an act of withdrawing permanently from one's usual sphere of activity. Frequently with from.Common from the mid 18th cent.
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society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > [noun]
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > retirement
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > retired officers collectively
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1648 O. Cromwell Let. 25 Nov. in Lett. & Speeches (1904) I. 394 When Robert Hammond, through dissatisfaction too, desired retirement from the Army.
1654 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1938) VIII. 330 Ather the nick of my reteirement or shortlie eftir..I demite my place.
1765 London Evening Post 5 Jan. He served..as an officer in a regiment of Dragoons on the Irish Establishment; and after his retirement from the army,..as a Justice of Peace.
1782 T. Jefferson Let. 20 May in Papers (1952) VI. 185 If reason and inclination unite in justifying my retirement, the laws of my country are equally in favor of it.
1796 G. Washington in N.-Y. Mag. (New Ser.) Sept. 472/2 Retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
1818 J. W. Croker Let. 13 July in Croker Papers (1884) I. 115 To induce you to abandon the thoughts of a retirement from business.
1885 Manch. Examiner 12 Mar. 4/7 The retirement of Mr. Beith from the chairmanship of the Executive is a just cause for regret.
1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 232 It is a most singular thing that a problem which was certainly as abstruse and unusual as any which I have faced in my long professional career should have come to me after my retirement.
1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 169 In a trice, their discovery.., swathed in platina mink and orchids, was announcing her retirement from the screen to return to Broadway.
1972 Guardian 14 June 12/1 Now that Mr Suto is on the brink of retirement..his wife feels she can lift the curtain on life at Japan's No. 10.
2004 C. Connelly Attention All Shipping (2005) 126 After his retirement, whenever the maroons sounded..Blogg would be on the pier, staring after it out to sea.
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1851 London Gaz. No. 2122. 1673/1 By keeping up the Retirement of 1846, to the number of 200.
d. Sport. A withdrawal from a race or match, esp. because of injury. Cf. retire v. 9b.
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1861 Times 5 Dec. 10/2 At the fence beyond the field was further reduced by the retirement of The Earl [sc. a racehorse].
1923 Motor Cycling 26 Sept. 659/2 Lowe's retirement was due to a crash caused by a burst front tyre.
1957 Times 11 Feb. 13 Miss Morgan..announced her retirement from the match, and explained that she would be unable to get away to play in today's semi-final round.
1999 Sunday Sport 3 Oct. 42/3 Canada's tempo was affected with the half-time retirement of captain and fly-half Gareth Rees with a knee injury.
2008 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury (Nexis) 20 July Wozniak defeated Williams 6-2, 3-1 with Williams' retirement due to injury.
5. The period of time during which a jury deliberates on its verdict; the withdrawal of a jury from the courtroom for this purpose; the state of being so retired. Cf. retire v. 5e.
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1655 Triall I. Penruddock 6 The Jury after a quarter of an houres retirement, brought me in guilty.
1681 Scotch-mist cleared Up 39 After some hours retirement they returned, and brought in the Earl of Argyle guilty of the High Treasons laid to his charge.
1785 Exam. into Rights & Duties of Jurors 54 A jury are competent, and uncontrollable judges of the law, while they remain in their retirement.
1799 Times 23 Dec. 3 The Jury, after a short retirement, acquitted all the prisoners.
1844 South-western Law Jrnl. & Reporter 1 228 After some hours retirement, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and assessed his damages at $10000.
1879 E. H. Stiles Digest Decisions Supreme Court Iowa III. 231 The jury had been fully instructed and after retirement communicated to the court that they had no doubt that defendant committed the act charged.
1893 Northeastern Reporter 33 978/2 The judge..informed the jury, in retirement, that, if they desired any further information upon matters of law, they could come into court.
1935 B. Thomson Story Scotl. Yard (1936) iii. xv. 151 After more than an hour's retirement the jury found Palmer guilty.
1996 Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 3/2 After a three-month trial and a five-day retirement, the jury at Southwark Crown Court convicted Martin.
2008 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 3 Aug. 4 The jury appeared to accept from their questions after retirement that Mr George was in Gowan Avenue the Monday morning that she was killed.
6. The withdrawal of banknotes from circulation; the withdrawal of a bond, stock, etc., from operation or currency by settling the debt it represents; (also) the payment or settlement of a debt, consequently withdrawing the relevant bond or similar from currency. Also: an instance of this. Cf. retire v. 7d.
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society > trade and finance > money > circulation of money > [noun] > withdrawing money from circulation
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1795 Unto Right Honourable Lords of Council & Session (Royal Bank Scotl.) 37 The account was wholly and exclusively operated upon in the retirement of the defenders notes.
1860 H. V. Poor Hist. Railroads & Canals U.S.A. I. 98 To provide for the retirement of the Funded Debt of the Company a Sinking Fund was created.
1865 Sat. Rev. 23 Dec. 777 His estimate is that 40,000,000l. employed in the retirement of notes will certainly suffice to bring them to par.
1897 Daily News 22 Nov. 7/6 A provision for the retirement of all paper currency of a lower denomination than ten dollars.
1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) i. 75 Florida gasoline tax is applied in equal parts to new road construction and the retirement of county highway bonds.
1954 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Closed-end adj., of an investment trust, operating with its initial capital changed only by new issues or retirements, not by redemption of shares.
1963 G. Hjelte & J. S. Shivers Public Admin. Park & Recreational Services ix. 170 Expenditures for the retirement of debt.
1990 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 777/3 The retirement of public debt may have a braking effect on economic growth.
2002 Wall St. Jrnl. 3 Sept. a20/4 The stock transferred comes from the company's treasure stocks, which is always available for retirement or resale.
Compounds
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a. General attributive (in sense 4).
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > relating to retirement
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society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > [adjective] > relating to
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1897 Nature 15 Apr. 562/2 Sir William Flower's term..has been extended for three years from the expiration of his retirement date.
1935 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 35 431/2 These nurses..made systematic provision for their retirement years under a plan especially created for the nursing profession.
1965 Pop. Sci. July 149 Easy upkeep makes it a fine choice for retirement living as well as for vacation-season use.
1993 Independent on Sunday 22 Aug. (Weekend Suppl.) 11/4 The key to commercial success in the retirement market is the younger retirees, because they have the greatest spending potential.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 31 Dec. c2/6 The clear message..that layoffs would ensue if the retirement offer was undersubscribed.
b.
retirement age n.
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1888 Times 12 Apr. 13/3 The retirement age of 55 was fixed by a Royal Commission.
1976 A. White Long Silence xix. 164 The driver, one of the colonel's men, long past retirement age.
2009 Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska) (Nexis) 5 May a2 Would you raise the retirement age for full benefits?
retirement pensioner n.
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1957 B. E. Shenfield Social Policies for Old Age 86 About three out of four retirement pensioners have other means in addition to their National Insurance pensions.
2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Jan. 16 The higher rates will also apply to other retirement pensioners who have reached age 65 (men) and 60(women) by October 1.
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a. In the sense ‘at or in which a retired (retired adj. 4) person lives’.
retirement city n.
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1964 V. Bartlett Tuscan Retreat i. 24 ‘Retirement cities’ such as are growing up in the United States..lived in only by old people.
2008 Atlanta Mag. Apr. 34 (advt.) Dahlonega, Ga.—a historic town recently named a Best Value Retirement City by U.S. News & World Report.
retirement community n.
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1947 W. C. McKain (title) The social participation of old people in a California retirement community.
2002 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 29 Nov. In the past year, it has opened three ‘limited branches’ at retirement communities in the county.
retirement flat n.
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1975 Times 21 Feb. 9/5 An elderly couple moving from Leeds to a retirement flat in Morecambe Bay.
2006 J. Thistlethwaite & G. Ridgway Making it Real viii. 80 I live by myself in a retirement flat.
retirement home n.
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1851 G. Wightwick Let. in W. C. Macready Reminisc. (1875) 677 I am one of the family party at your birthday dinner in the retirement-home I have assisted to prepare for you.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. 31/4 (advt.) Small retirement home, 2 bedrooms, 3 piece bath.
2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 214 She'd once been a dancer and still gave classes at community centres and retirement homes.
retirement village n.
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1961 E. Burgess in Science 9 June 1820/2 (title) Retirement villages.
2002 J. Cartwright White Lightning xxiv. 217 Yesterday we had a busload of oldies coming up from the retirement village to buy jam.
b. In the sense ‘of or relating to the financing of retirement (sense 4a, 4b)’.
retirement annuity n.
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1905 School Rev. 13 835 Do you believe in the principle of a retirement annuity or pension system for aged and invalided public-school teachers?
2002 Which? Tax Saving Guide 11/1 You need to complete this section if you received a UK pension, retirement annuity or any of the taxable social security benefits shown in the tax return.
retirement asset n.
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1930 Accounting Rev. 5 138/1 Restrictive measures relating to retirement assets.
2005 N.Y. Times Mag. 30 Oct. 60 Pensions typically annuitize—that is, they convert a worker's retirement assets into an annual stipend.
retirement benefit n.
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1894 Boston Sunday Globe 2 Dec. 23/2 To place the regular sailors on an equal footing with their army comrades relative to retirement benefits.
1908 S. T. Dutton & D. Snedden Admin. Public Educ. in U.S. xv. 271 Retirement benefits would produce more persistent and better service and less discontent in the profession.
2004 State Income Tax Monitor (Nexis) 31 Oct. 67 The state starts with a company's taxable income and adds back employee compensation, fringe and retirement benefits.
retirement fund n.
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1827 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Apr. 527/2 (heading) Military retirement fund.
1910 School Rev. 18 421 The past year has witnessed the establishment of retirement funds in various parts of the country.
2005 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 4 Feb. 30/1 (advt.) Benefits include an annual bonus, retirement fund, medical aid, [etc.].
retirement income n.
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1824 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 136/2 He secured a competent retirement income.
1948 Life 6 Sept. 38/1 (advt.) My life insurance will also provide a comfortable retirement income for you and me when we want it later on.
2003 D. L. Scott Wall St. Words (ed. 3) 126 A 1974 act that protects the retirement income of pension fund participants.
retirement package n.
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1955 N.Y. Times 7 Aug. iii. 1/2 Variable annuities should be part of a combined retirement package.
2000 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 Aug. a23/3 He seems to have forgotten to have his retirement package properly lawyered.
retirement pay n.
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1837 P. Watt Progress & Present State Sci. Life Insurance ii. 32 The value of a cavalry commission at Madras and Bombay, as well as of the chance of enjoying the reversionary retirement pay, are of two very different values.
1990 S. Sturges Preston Sturges xxx. 176 I began to understand how easily young men could..laze away their best years working for retirement pay and security, the enemies of intelligence and initiative.
2009 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 31 May a1 She would have made more money staying home and collecting retirement pay than she has by continuing to work.
retirement pension n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payment in consideration of past service
pension1529
superannuationa1704
retirement pension1832
pension money1854
retired pay1867
1832 R. Southey Ess. I. ii. 42 Mr. Windham's similar plan for the army has since proved how enormously retirement-pensions are liable to collusion and abuse of all kinds.
1942 W. H. Beveridge Social Insurance iii. 96 The pensions proposed in the Plan for Social Security are retirement pensions, not old age pensions.
2000 A. Sayle Barcelona Plates 119 These people had given each other hugely generous retirement pensions and munificent redundancy pay-offs then decamped to France.
retirement plan n.
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1860 Times 25 July 6 I will now ask the House to consider the position in which this retirement plan of the Board of Admiralty stands.
1911 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 38 9 The retirement plan embodied in the act passed by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1910 is based upon this principle of joint contributions.
2003 D. L. Scott Wall St. Words (ed. 3) 215 Corporate officials may lock down a retirement plan during a period of administrative changes in the plan.
retirement portfolio n.
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1952 Chicago Tribune 27 Mar. iv. 7/3 (advt.) Helping a lady schoolteacher plan a modest retirement portfolio.
2006 Amer. Econ. Rev. 96 8/2 Working a spreadsheet to balance a retirement portfolio is indeed a high-level, learned skill.
retirement scheme n.
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1826 London Mag. Nov. 364 I noted the number of Somersets and Lennoxes and Coninghams, et iis similia, for whom the unattached and brevet retirement schemes made way.
1933 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 169 142/1 Public employment has a considerable advantage over private employment in that a much larger proportion of public workers are under a retirement scheme.
2009 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 7 June 2 Public sector workers receive much more generous retirement schemes than their private sector counterparts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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