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.