The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retired \Re*tired"\, a.
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Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits.
A retired part of the peninsula.
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Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician.
Retired flank (Fort.), a flank bent inward toward the rear of the work.
Retired list (Mil. & Naval), a list of officers, who, by reason of advanced age or other disability, are relieved from active service, but still receive a specified amount of pay from the government. [1913 Webster] -- Re*tired"ly, adv. -- Re*tired"ness, n.
Usage examples of "retired list".
Denisov, now a general on the retired list and much dissatisfied with the present state of affairs, had arrived during that fortnight.
Only to a few at the very top was he Philby, a full KGB colonel on the retired list.
Technically he was on the retired list, and had been so before people on the current colonel's list had been born.
M's naval pay (as a Vice-Admiral on the retired list) would add perhaps another £.
I'll take care of having you removed for cause, or transferring you to the retired list, or whatever the red tape calls for, but you are done, right now.
The Rostofs had as a guest, besides the Bezukhof family, Nikolai's old friend, General Vasili Denisof, who was now on the retired list.