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Retirement : (noun)
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; "a religious
retreat" [syn: retreat]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline.
--Goldsmith.
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.
--Thomson.
2. A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one
withdraws or retreats; a private abode. [Archaic]
This coast full of princely retirements for the
sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the
plantations. --Evelyn.
Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus.
--Addison.
Syn: Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion;
privacy. See Solitude.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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