Definition of Retire

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Retire

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.

To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.

To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.

To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.

To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.

To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.

To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.

The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.

A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

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Retire Quotations

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Margaret Mead

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
Bette Davis

I don't intend to retire.
Bobby Knight

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
Richard M. Nixon

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
Lee Trevino

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
Barney Frank

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Rick Warren

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.
Brian Clough

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Benjamin Disraeli

Retire Translations

retire in Afrikaans is aftree
retire in Dutch is aftreden, met pensioen gaan
retire in French is retirent, retirez, se retirer, retirer, retirons
retire in Latin is defungo, abeo, recedo, cubitum ire, recedo
retire in Portuguese is aposente
retire in Spanish is retirarse
retire in Swedish is retirera, dra sig tillbaka

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