'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