Retirement

Noun

 * 1) An act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
 * : A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.

Synonyms

 * solitude
 * withdrawment
 * departure
 * retreat
 * seclusion
 * privacy

Related terms

 * retire

Adjectives for Retirement
voluntary; imminent; short; quiet; suspicious; comparative; peaceful; secular; close; unobtrusive; romantic; precipitate; sweet; monastic; ostentatious; beloved; temporary.

Verbs for Retirement
creep into—; draw into—; drive into—; emerge from—; forego—; hasten—; hold in —; loathe—; remain in—; resist—; shame into—; shut into—; sink into—; slate for —; surrender to—; —abjures; —bores; — cuts off; —deprives; —stagnates.

Thesaurus
Jim Crow, 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, 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

Etymology
From

Translations

 * Bulgarian: пенсиониране
 * Czech: výslužba
 * Dutch: pensionering (act),  (state)
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: συνταξιοδότηση
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: ていねんたいしょく
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: penzionisanje, penzija
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: pensionering


 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian: visszavonultság
 * Japanese: ゆうきょ


 * : n. retirada, isolamento