retired

A2 Topic:Time
US /ɹɪˈtaɪəɹd/ UK /ɹɪˈtaɪəd/
adj verb Freq #4092

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    No longer working, especially because of having reached old age.

    My neighbour is a retired teacher who now spends her days gardening.

  2. 2
    verb

    Past tense of retire: stopped working permanently.

    He retired from the army after thirty years of service.

  3. 3
    adj

    No longer in use.

    Jackie Robinson's number 42 is a retired number across all major league teams.

Thesaurus

Word family
Derived forms nonretiredpreretiredretiredlyretirednesssemiretiredunretired

Etymology

From retire + -ed.

Topics

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