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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
retirement
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a retirement pension
▪ Many workers lost their retirement pensions when the fund collapsed.
retirement age
▪ The risk of experiencing poverty is much greater for those over retirement age.
retirement home
retirement plan
sb's retirement years
▪ He enjoyed his retirement years in Wales.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comfortable
▪ He'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey.
▪ Key among them is the problem facing most developed countries of how to fund reasonably comfortable retirements for an increasingly long-lived population.
▪ Jean had looked forward to a comfortable retirement after a lifetime of work.
▪ In the 1980s he was living in comfortable retirement in a suburb of Buenos Aires, still convinced that his experiment worked.
▪ John Tyzack provided for his comfortable retirement in Oxford by selling the business to Henderson Administration, the well-known investment trust.
▪ Birmingham architects had the continuing energy, self-confidence, and material means to create a comfortable and interesting retirement for themselves.
▪ One of the most important topics is how to plan your finances for a comfortable retirement.
early
▪ Maybe I would explore the possibility of early retirement in the end.
▪ By conservative estimates, the agency has pared 2, 200 jobs in the past two years through attrition and early retirement.
▪ In doing so it used the temporary 1951-3 increase in employment of older workers rather than the wider post-war trend to earlier retirement.
▪ The age of retirement has to be raised and early retirement eliminated.
▪ Mr Gubbay had already agreed to take early retirement in June but the government wants him out of the way before then.
▪ Many of his friends, and two of his fellow team members, were on the early retirement list.
▪ That's why when schools are suffering a shortage of teachers, there is a surge of early retirements among staff.
▪ They keep off the jobless roles by taking early retirement, holding part-time jobs or enrolling in government-run training programs.
happy
▪ We wish Geoff and his wife Ivy a long and happy retirement.
▪ I handed over a plethora of retirement gifts from her colleagues and wished her a long and happy retirement.
▪ A former miner, Joe was presented with a cheque together with good wishes for a long and happy retirement.
▪ We wish them a long, healthy and happy retirement.
▪ We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you and wish her a very happy retirement.
▪ We send them both our very good wishes for long, happy and healthy retirements.
▪ We would like to wish Ian all the best for a long and happy retirement.
individual
▪ At Fidelity Investments, most Nasdaq stocks are acceptable but not if they are held in an individual retirement account.
▪ Allowing tax-free individual retirement account savings plans for families with incomes lower than $ 100, 000.
▪ Boaz would replace Social Security with a sort of expanded individual retirement account plan.
▪ Thus, all savings would be treated similar to the present tax-deferred individual retirement accounts.
▪ Janus also raised its minimum investment for individual retirement accounts to $ 500 from $ 250.
long
▪ We wish Geoff and his wife Ivy a long and happy retirement.
▪ I handed over a plethora of retirement gifts from her colleagues and wished her a long and happy retirement.
▪ A former miner, Joe was presented with a cheque together with good wishes for a long and happy retirement.
▪ This was successful beyond their expectations, and enabled Swindin to enjoy a long and fruitful retirement.
▪ We would like to wish Ian all the best for a long and happy retirement.
▪ We all wish Adam a long and happy retirement.
■ NOUN
account
▪ At Fidelity Investments, most Nasdaq stocks are acceptable but not if they are held in an individual retirement account.
▪ That extra money would then be diverted into personal retirement accounts.
▪ Allowing tax-free individual retirement account savings plans for families with incomes lower than $ 100, 000.
▪ Boaz would replace Social Security with a sort of expanded individual retirement account plan.
▪ About 31 percent of its shares are in retirement accounts.
▪ For starters, only about half of baby boomers have any retirement account at all.
▪ Thus, all savings would be treated similar to the present tax-deferred individual retirement accounts.
▪ You can not replace money taken out of a retirement account.
age
▪ So for some older workers the retirement age is effectively lowered by unemployment, sickness or injury.
▪ Both also were of retirement age.
▪ Upon reaching retirement age Len found that he missed the job so much he came back on a part-time basis.
▪ After twenty years, he reached retirement age, left his job, and began spending every moment on the case.
▪ The Government should review its own employees' retirement age and early pension entitlements to allow older people greater choice.
▪ Reducing the retirement age to 55 would cost between $ 11 billion and $ 20 billion a year.
▪ The Labour Party's manifestos at the last two general elections contained proposals to lower the main retirement age.
▪ Should grabbing hold of that famous stiff-armed bronze trophy come with a mandatory retirement age, like piloting a passenger plane?
benefit
▪ Policyholders were able to benefit from higher levels of retirement benefits for the same premium because the death provision was limited.
▪ Whatever is there when the employee retires is used to fund his retirement benefit.
▪ The higher death benefit before retirement is allowed for by an equivalent reduction in retirement benefit.
▪ He was asked to resign after pressing for cuts in retirement benefits paid out to employees of the public sector.
▪ The first includes earnings, occupational sick pay and retirement benefits, and holidays.
▪ Voters also rejected Proposition C, which would have improved retirement benefits for 165 police officers and firefighters.
▪ It was supposed to keep retirement benefits safe from politicians' tinkering.
community
▪ Increasing life expectancy has increased the demands for medical care, retirement communities, and nursing homes.
▪ Rancho Bernardo was originally planned as a retirement community.
home
▪ Hugh Farnham was discovered in a retirement home in Florida, living under an assumed identity, obsessively chewing on his rusks.
▪ The mobile museum visits schools, retirement homes, shopping centers and other venues.
▪ This was a real village once - none of your weekend cottages and retirement homes like mine.
▪ The family said she died Dec. 28 at a retirement home.
▪ A second application which cuts out the 18 starter and retirement homes is recommended for approval.
▪ Herndon has chosen to stay away from the retirement home until her father calms down.
▪ She walked on, wondering whose decision it had been to buy a retirement home in such an isolated spot.
▪ She played the piano for an hour every Thursday at a Northeast Austin retirement home.
income
▪ Consequently a widow or widower will enjoy a higher retirement income than if or she had been single when they retired.
▪ Experts now say that savings plan accounts will produce half the retirement income of people under the new Federal Employees Retirement System.
▪ Moreover, when you have sat down and worked out your retirement income in detail, you may even be pleasantly surprised.
▪ A.. The answer depends on whether you plan to draw on this money to supplement your retirement income.
▪ Your retirement income may well depend on whether you start a new career.
▪ Murphy said fund directors have a duty to maximize the retirement income of city employees.
pension
▪ Older married women are less likely than men to receive a National Insurance retirement pension in their own right.
▪ Different considerations, however, apply to the contributions to a retirement pension.
▪ There are many benefits other than the retirement pension.
▪ Bevin's plan was only one of a number of retirement pension schemes discussed in the 1930s.
▪ First, there is the state retirement pension.
▪ The lower earnings limit is the same level as the basic retirement pension.
▪ Veterans who returned to low-paid jobs without occupational pension schemes now depend upon the state retirement pension.
▪ For many elderly people, a statutory retirement pension is their major, if not their only resource.
plan
▪ They are less interested in investment and retirement plans and are less well positioned to attract meaningful new clients than older lawyers.
▪ Retirement: Linda has jumped from job to job, never staying long enough to become vested in a retirement plan.
▪ Do retirement plan administrators get crazy?
▪ Employers who establish retirement plans must be cautious about engaging in transactions with their plans.
▪ If neither you nor your spouse is covered by an employer retirement plan, you may deduct your entire contribution.
▪ Their restaurant is their retirement plan.
▪ They were among those who in 1981 took a $ 40, 000 cash buyout to switch to a less-generous retirement plan.
▪ Was the $ 1. 2 trillion in mutual fund retirement plans endangered by the market correction?
state
▪ First, there is the state retirement pension.
▪ The Government has delayed responding to the need to equalise pension rights because it means equalising State retirement ages.
▪ Veterans who returned to low-paid jobs without occupational pension schemes now depend upon the state retirement pension.
▪ The basic state retirement pension will remain the foundation for retirement.
▪ The state retirement pension is the largest single social security benefit, as well as the oldest.
▪ The Health Authority had a policy of retiring people when they reached the state retirement age.
▪ We also need more radical policies to raise levels of income up to and beyond state retirement age.
▪ While some one is unemployed, only contributions towards the basic state retirement pension are credited.
■ VERB
announce
▪ Stein, 54, announced his retirement last week after serving more than three decades in the department.
▪ Shortly after his defeat he announced his retirement from politics.
▪ After defeating Pennsylvania in a playoff game Saturday he announced his retirement, effective after the Tournament.
▪ In November he announced his retirement.
▪ He has announced his retirement from Grand Slam tournaments.
▪ Dame Janet Baker may have announced her retirement from public performance, but she still plans to make one or two recordings.
▪ Ozzie Smith announced his retirement, and there was talk of a first-ballot entry.
follow
▪ Recruit sought: Cleveland Police are looking for an unusual recruit a horse following the retirement of ten-year-old mare Gellerdale.
▪ The six-year-old is now trained by John McConnochie following the retirement of Mercy Rimell.
▪ A special leaving party was organised in the Bird and Hand a local hotel, on the evening following her retirement.
force
▪ Jim, 70, was forced into retirement after his business collapsed.
▪ He supports forced retirement at 65.
▪ Irving Pichel, one of the revelations of the retrospective, was forced into early retirement.
▪ It was the thing that kept him going after career disappointments, bad health, a forced retirement.
▪ This problem is much worse for those who are forced into premature retirement through redundancy.
▪ On top of it all, there was a touch of poignancy to his forced retirement.
▪ Two years ago she was forced into early retirement because of cuts in funding to the organization where she worked.
▪ All designed to force the early retirement of old lags like me.
live
▪ He is funny and shrewd and creaky-and he lives in retirement just outside San Francisco.
▪ Rushworth divorces her, and she finally lives in retirement apart from the family, with Aunt Norris for a companion.
▪ He lived in retirement in Deal, Kent.
▪ For many in the United States, real standards of living actually rise with retirement.
▪ In the 1980s he was living in comfortable retirement in a suburb of Buenos Aires, still convinced that his experiment worked.
provide
▪ And you can provide for your retirement.
▪ A pension loan takes advantage of the cash lump sum your pension plan will provide at retirement.
▪ Those in low-paid work will also find providing for retirement difficult.
▪ The scheme provides a pension on retirement linked to final pensionable pay near that time.
reach
▪ In less than a year I would reach retirement age and I had nothing to fall back on.
▪ After twenty years, he reached retirement age, left his job, and began spending every moment on the case.
▪ The Education Committee evaluated Village school for possible closure because the teacher had reached the age of retirement.
▪ A big debate within the advisory council concerned what would happen to individualized accounts once people reach retirement.
▪ The Health Authority had a policy of retiring people when they reached the state retirement age.
▪ Many men buffeted by fortune will reach retirement prematurely; some have had great success to be followed by even greater failure.
save
▪ He remembered Anne laughing about how much fun it was to give away money they'd saved for retirement.
▪ But not in the bureaucracy, save by death or retirement.
▪ The savings industry continues to demonstrate very good returns for those saving for their retirement.
▪ Expanded IRAs for this higher-income group will give costly tax breaks to people who are already saving for retirement.
▪ I saved well for my retirement, but I find it swallowed up with increased living costs in London.
▪ Huge amounts of money have flooded the stock market through mutual funds as more people are saving for their retirement.
▪ While more saving for retirement should be encouraged, such actions can not solve the current problem.
spend
▪ Now Martin is looking forward to spending his retirement enjoying outside interests which will include travelling, walking and watching cricket.
▪ For many young workers, the right long-term investment could mean a million extra dollars to spend in retirement.
▪ His published writings were valued by a wide circle of biblical students but his later life was spent in a secluded retirement.
▪ It seemed the perfect way to spend their retirement, and the couple quickly applied.
▪ The middle-aged manager might have well-thought-out ideas about how he would spend his enforced early retirement.
▪ Warren Rudman, who has spent his retirement lecturing us about balancing the budget, is another.
▪ Mr Tholen will spend his retirement indulging one of his other great loves gardening.
take
▪ An officer soon afterwards, and finally Captain Coetzee by the time he took early retirement in 1986.
▪ No wonder they take early retirement.
▪ The chairman's job was one he coveted and he has since taken early retirement to concentrate on the remit.
▪ If he resigns or takes early retirement, he could be victimising himself while his boss gets away with it.
▪ This may involve suggesting such employees take early retirement or making them redundant.
▪ Between 1987/88 and 1989/90 the numbers of teachers taking early retirement rose from 7,574 to 12,343.
▪ The rest have switched to other bases or federal agencies, taken early retirement or have been laid off.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ How much do I need to save for a comfortable retirement?
▪ I have less than a year to go before retirement.
▪ Stitch announced her retirement this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A person's retirement will affect the family functioning and network but this is not unidirectional.
▪ Attitudes towards employment, retirement, and early retirement are not formed in a vacuum.
▪ Backdate home responsibilities protection to cover women coming up to retirement now.
▪ Certainly, one ought to put aside for retirement more than Social Security.
▪ From some angles, it looks to be a pension plan offering monthly retirement benefits commensurate with contributions.
▪ He wants the retirement age raised to 70 and cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients reduced.
▪ Older married women are less likely than men to receive a National Insurance retirement pension in their own right.
▪ Sergeant Gonzalez was a twenty-year man, a Marine who, at forty, was near retirement.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retirement

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
retirement

1590s, "act of retreating," also "act of withdrawing into seclusion," from Middle French retirement (1570s); see retire + -ment. Meaning "privacy" is from c.1600; that of "withdrawal from occupation or business" is from 1640s.

Wiktionary
retirement

n. 1 An act of retire; withdrawal. 2 (context uncountable English) The state of being retired; seclusion. 3 The portion of one's life after retiring from one's career. 4 (context obsolete English) A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.

WordNet
retirement
  1. n. 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]

Wikipedia
Retirement

Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours.

An increasing number of individuals are choosing to put off this point of total retirement, by selecting to exist in the emerging state of Pre-tirement.

Many people choose to retire when they are eligible for private or public pension benefits, although some are forced to retire when physical conditions no longer allow the person to work any longer (by illness or accident) or as a result of legislation concerning their position. In most countries, the idea of retirement is of recent origin, being introduced during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Previously, low life expectancy and the absence of pension arrangements meant that most workers continued to work until death. Germany was the first country to introduce retirement, in 1889.

Nowadays, most developed countries have systems to provide pensions on retirement in old age, which may be sponsored by employers and/or the state. In many poorer countries, support for the old is still mainly provided through the family. Today, retirement with a pension is considered a right of the worker in many societies, and hard ideological, social, cultural and political battles have been fought over whether this is a right. In many western countries this right is mentioned in national constitutions.

Retirement (Beanie Baby)

The retirement of a Beanie Baby or a product from any line of Ty Inc., the manufacturer of Beanie Babies and other lines of collectibles, is its withdrawal from production. This has occurred in varying amounts of time following its introduction, depending on Ty's goals for that particular item. Some Beanie Babies have remained in production for several years following their introduction. Others have been retired just days after being introduced. Occasionally, beanies that have been introduced for a single purpose have been retired on the day they have been distributed. More rarely, some beanies have had their production canceled prior to their shipment to retailers, but following their announcement to the public, thereby never becoming available.

When a Beanie Baby is retired, it is no longer produced by Ty, though if Ty has some remaining in its stock, these may be shipped to retailers. While some Beanies were produced abundantly, thereby making them readily available in stores (authorized Ty retailers and the secondary market), other rarer ones have proven more scarce, and have been highly sought by collectors. These are often sold for high prices.

Retirement (disambiguation)

Retirement is the end of a person's career, usually due to age. Related articles include:

  • Mandatory retirement
  • Retirement annuity
  • Retirement plan

Retirement may also refer to:

Usage examples of "retirement".

Over the eight years of his retirement, Anareta had forgotten the chafe of being commanded.

Although the order which recalled him to court was probably accompanied by some intimation of his approaching greatness, he appeals to the people of Athens to witness his tears of undissembled sorrow, when he was reluctantly torn away from his beloved retirement.

USB would cut costs by offering early retirement and firing nonessential staff, up efficiency through increased computerization, create a merchant banking division, and expand its trading operations.

With them he beguiled the hour of retirement, and with them he hastened the sun to sink behind the western hill.

In the cool shade of retirement, we may easily devise imaginary forms of government, in which the sceptre shall be constantly bestowed on the most worthy, by the free and incorrupt suffrage of the whole community.

Soapy and a knighthood, while his period as Minister of Technological Development had been rewarded by an early retirement and the Mastership of Porterhouse.

Mister Boss with his midlife spread and family photo on his desk and his dreams about early retirement and winters spent at a trailer-park hookup in some Arizona desert.

Once her eyes adjusted, Nina said hello to a number of them: Judge Milne, who was rumored to be considering retirement, Bill Galway, the new mayor of South Lake Tahoe, and a few former clients.

Mark remembered him vividly from his days as a resident at NYCH when the man served as outgoing chairman of the Obstetrics Department prior to retirement.

Let me represent to you the following: Dirk Pardee was forced into retirement due to persistent accounting irregularities in the various units he commanded.

If he entertained any doubt of his own constancy, such a delay afforded him the opportunity of preserving his life and honor by flight, of withdrawing himself into some obscure retirement or some distant province, and of patiently expecting the return of peace and security.

Amidst the thick cloud of bigotry and ignorance which overspread the nation during the commonwealth and protectorship, there were a few sedate philosophers, who, in the retirement of Oxford, cultivated their reason, and established conferences for the mutual communication of their discoveries in physics and geometry.

I noticed that Tell Radon was here twelve years longer than standard retirement date.

The Grand Forks bank had finally foreclosed on Johanson, and the auction would be next Saturday, and Doc Sherve had finally brought in a young doctor as a partner, and was talking retirement again.

He had been told that clients expected telex facilities: a time would come perhaps when clients would expect to find Coca-Cola dispensers and computer games placed in the waiting room for their refreshment and recreation, and it might well be that Chambers would have to bow to their wishes, but he could not help hoping that that day would be deferred to some time beyond his own retirement.