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RETIREMENT
retirement, retreat
(noun) withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; “the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity”
retirement
(noun) withdrawal from your position or occupation
retirement
(noun) the state of being retired from one’s business or occupation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
retirement (countable and uncountable, plural retirements)
An act of retiring; withdrawal. [from 16th c.]
(uncountable) The state of being retired; seclusion. [from 17th c.]
(now, rare) A place of seclusion or privacy; a retreat. [from 17th c.]
The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. [from 17th c.]
The act of leaving one's career or employment permanently. [from 17th c.]
Synonyms
• (act of retiring): departure, withdrawment
• (state of being retired): privacy, seclusion, solitude
• (place of seclusion or privacy): retreat
Source: Wiktionary
Re*tire"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. retirement.]
1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson.
2. A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode. [Archaic] This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations. Evelyn. Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus. Addison.
Syn.
– Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy. See Solitude.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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