'Retirement' definitions:
Definition of 'retirement'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being retired from one's business or occupation
noun
Withdrawal from your position or occupation
noun
Withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; "the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity" [syn: retirement, retreat]
Definition of 'Retirement'
From: GCIDE
- Retirement \Re*tire"ment\, n. [Cf. F. retirement.]
- 1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. [1913 Webster]
- O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy. See Solitude. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'retirement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandonment,
- abdication,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- acquitment,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- aloofness,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- anonymity,
- apartheid,
- apartness,
- backwardness,
- bashfulness,
- binder,
- blankness,
- cash,
- cash payment,
- cashiering,
- chilliness,
- clearance,
- closed meeting,
- coldness,
- confidentiality,
- confidentialness,
- conge,
- constraint,
- convenience,
- coolness,
- debt service,
- decampment,
- deconsecration,
- defrayal,
- defrayment,
- defrocking,
- demission,
- departure,
- deposal,
- deposit,
- deposition,
- deprivation,
- desuetude,
- detachment,
- dethronement,
- disbarment,
- disbarring,
- disbursal,
- discharge,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- discrownment,
- disemployment,
- disengagement,
- disenthronement,
- dismissal,
- displacement,
- displacing,
- distance,
- disuse,
- doling out,
- down payment,
- drumming out,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- ease,
- egress,
- emeritus status,
- escape,
- evacuation,
- excommunication,
- executive session,
- exit,
- exodus,
- expressionlessness,
- expulsion,
- fallback,
- firing,
- flight,
- forced resignation,
- forced separation,
- free time,
- freedom,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- furloughing,
- getaway,
- going,
- goof-off time,
- guardedness,
- hegira,
- hire purchase,
- hire purchase plan,
- iciness,
- idle hours,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impeachment,
- impersonality,
- inaccessibility,
- incognito,
- installment,
- installment plan,
- interest payment,
- introversion,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- Jim Crow,
- kicking upstairs,
- layoff,
- leaving,
- leisure,
- liquidation,
- modesty,
- monthly payments,
- never-never,
- nonemployment,
- nonprevalence,
- nonuse,
- obsolescence,
- obsoleteness,
- obsoletion,
- obsoletism,
- odd moments,
- ousting,
- overthrow,
- overthrowal,
- parting,
- passing,
- paying,
- paying off,
- paying out,
- paying up,
- payment,
- payment in kind,
- payoff,
- pensioning off,
- pink slip,
- prepayment,
- privacy,
- private conference,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- pullback,
- pullout,
- purge,
- quarantine,
- quarterly payments,
- quittance,
- recedence,
- receding,
- recess,
- recession,
- reclusion,
- reculade,
- regular payments,
- relinquishment,
- remittance,
- remoteness,
- removal,
- repose,
- repression,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- resignation,
- rest,
- restraint,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retiral,
- retractation,
- retractility,
- retraction,
- retreat,
- retrocedence,
- rustication,
- satisfaction,
- seclusion,
- secrecy,
- segregation,
- semiretirement,
- separation,
- sequestration,
- settlement,
- sinking-fund payment,
- spare time,
- splendid isolation,
- spot cash,
- standoffishness,
- subduedness,
- superannuation,
- suppression,
- surplusing,
- suspension,
- the ax,
- the boot,
- the bounce,
- the gate,
- the sack,
- ticket,
- time,
- time to kill,
- time to spare,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- unchurching,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unexpansiveness,
- unfrocking,
- unprevalence,
- unseating,
- voluntary resignation,
- walking papers,
- walkout,
- weekly payments,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawment,
- withdrawnness
Words containing 'Retirement'
- Retire,
- Retired,
- Retiredly,
- Retirer,
- Retiring,
- Retired flank,
- Retired list,
- Retiring board,
- Retiring pension,
- retired person,
- retirement account,
- retirement benefit,
- retirement check,
- retirement community,
- retirement complex,
- retirement fund,
- retirement pension,
- retirement plan,
- retirement program,
- individual retirement account,
- retirement savings account,
- retirement savings plan,
- association for the advancement of retired persons