retired

Speech parts

1. retired - Adjective

2. retired - Verb

4. retired - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Retire

Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits.

Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician.

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Examples

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. William Congreve

People do not retire. They are retired by others. Duke Ellington

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. George Mason

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before. Kim Stanley Robinson

The right hon. Gentleman is the first of the new party who has expressed his great grief by his actions-who has retired into what may be called his political Cave of Adullam-and he has called about him every one that was in distress and every one that was discontented. John Bright

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows. Agatha Christie

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