Meaning of retire In English

• 0 to leave your job or stop working because of old age or ill health:

  • Since retiring from the company, she has done voluntary work for a charity.

  • He is due to retire as chief executive next year.

  • She retired from the competition after pulling a leg muscle.

  • Following the merger, he was retired with a generous pension.

• 1 to leave a room or group of people and go somewhere quiet or private:

  • After dinner our host said, "Shall we retire to the drawing room?"

  • It had been a long day, so I retired early.

• 2 to leave your job or stop working because of having reached a particular age or because of ill health, or to cause someone or something to stop being employed or used:

  • [ I ] He worked in television after retiring from baseball.

  • [ I ] I’ll be retiring soon.

  • [ T ] The aircraft was retired in 1990.

• 3 to leave a room or group of people and go somewhere quiet or private:

  • The judge retired to her study to review the case.

• 4 to leave your job or stop working, usually because of your age or ill health:

  • She has no plans to retire.

  • retire from sth Jenkins retires from the firm this year.

  • retire as sth Elkin has retired as a director after 12 years on the board

  • retire at sth Can I get hold of the cash in my pension fund before I retire at 65?

  • James had to retire early after suffering three heart attacks in 2007.

• 5 if an employer retires an employee, they make the employee leave their job, usually because they are near the age at which they would normally stop working, or because they are ill:

  • He was retired early by his firm.

  • Companies typically retire workers at 60 and then hire about half of them back, often at 50-70% of their previous pay.

• 6 to pay back a debt or loan completely:

  • The funds were used to retire debt and to finance expansion.

  • Even after the state reduced benefits to workers and raised taxes on employers, it took until 2010 to retire that loan.

• 7 to take a machine or piece of equipment out of use because it is old and no longer useful:

  • The European-made Concorde was retired from British and French service in 2005.

  • Among the other measures is a $35 rebate to retire older refrigerators for newer, more efficient ones.