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retirement
noun
1 retirement
The state of being retired from one's business or occupation.
Roget 757:
resignation,
retirement,
abdication,
renunciation,
abjuration;
abandonment,
relinquishment.
Roget 893:
seclusion,
privacy;
retirement;
reclusion,
recess;
snugness
etc.
adj.;
delitescence†;
rustication,
rus in urbe [Lat.];
solitude;
solitariness
etc.
(singleness)
87;
isolation;
loneliness
etc.
adj.;
estrangement from the world,
voluntary exile;
aloofness.
cell,
hermitage;
convent
etc.
1000;
sanctum sanctorum [Lat.].
depopulation,
desertion,
desolation;
wilderness
etc.
(unproductive)
169;
howling wilderness;
rotten borough,
Old Sarum.
exclusion,
excommunication,
banishment,
exile,
ostracism,
proscription;
cut,
cut direct;
dead cut.
inhospitality†,
inhospitableness
etc.
adj.;
dissociability†;
domesticity,
Darby and Joan.
recluse,
hermit,
eremite,
cenobite;
anchoret†,
anchorite;
Simon Stylites†;
troglodyte,
Timon of Athens†,
Santon†,
solitaire,
ruralist†,
disciple of Zimmermann,
closet cynic,
Diogenes;
outcast,
Pariah,
castaway,
pilgarlic†;
wastrel,
foundling,
wilding†.
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Dutch: pensioen, pensionering
Polish: emerytura
2 retirement
Withdrawal from your position or occupation.
Dutch: uittreding
3 retirement
Withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation.
synonym: retreat.
Roget 287:
recession,
retirement,
withdrawal;
retreat;
retrocession
etc.
283†;
departure,
etc.
293;
recoil
etc.
277;
flight
etc.
(avoidance)
623.
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Roget 283:
regress,
regression;
retrocession†,
retrogression,
retrograduation†,
retroaction;
reculade†;
retreat,
withdrawal,
retirement,
remigration†;
recession
etc.
(motion from)
287;
recess;
crab-like motion.
refluence†,
reflux;
backwater,
regurgitation,
ebb,
return;
resilience reflection,
reflexion [Brit.]
(recoil)
277;
flip-flop,
volte-face [Fr.].
counter motion,
retrograde motion,
backward movement,
motion in reverse,
counter movement,
counter march;
veering,
tergiversation,
recidivation†,
backsliding,
fall;
deterioration
etc.
659;
recidivism,
recidivity†.
reversal,
relapse,
turning point
etc.
(reversion)
145.
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Dutch: retraite
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