RETIREMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retirement mean? 

• RETIREMENT (noun)
  The noun RETIREMENT has 3 senses:

1. the state of being retired from one's business or occupation

2. withdrawal from your position or occupation

3. withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation

  Familiarity information: RETIREMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETIREMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being retired from one's business or occupation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("retirement" is a kind of...):

position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)

Derivation:

retire (go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Withdrawal from your position or occupation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("retirement" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "retirement"):

hibernation (the act of retiring into inactivity)

rustication (the action of retiring to and living in the country)

Derivation:

retire (go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position)

retire (withdraw from active participation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

retirement; retreat

Context example:

the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity

Hypernyms ("retirement" is a kind of...):

withdrawal (the act of withdrawing)

 Context examples 

These two ladies now emerged from their retirement, and proposed to take Dora to live at Putney.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You spoke of a retirement, sir; and retirement and solitude are dull: too dull for you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You seem shut out from every thing—in the most complete retirement.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The quiet, the retirement of such a life would have answered all my ideas of happiness!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

During this period of rest he has refused the most princely offers to take up various cases, having determined that his retirement was a permanent one.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The tracking of concept evolution over the lifetime of a vocabulary, includes concept creation, modification, merges, splits, and retirements.

(Concept History, NCI Thesaurus)

Some assisted living facilities are part of retirement communities.

(Assisted Living, Administration on Aging)

Alternatively, it might be because you will choose a financial advisor to put your finances in order and allow you to make a maximum profit on your retirement investments.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And indeed to avoid so monstrous and detestable a sight was one principal motive of my retirement hither.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He should not have to think of her as pining in the retirement of Mansfield for him, rejecting Sotherton and London, independence and splendour, for his sake.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)