Meaning & use
Retirement
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The action or fact of leaving one's job or ceasing to work, typically because of age.
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After forty years teaching, she announced her retirement at the end of the school year.
He spent his retirement traveling and gardening.
A note on using this word
Can also refer more generally to withdrawal from active life or competition, as in an athlete's retirement from sport.
Words with a similar meaning
superannuation
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