Retired

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Retire \Re*tire"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Retired}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Retiring}.] [F. retirer; pref. re- re- + tirer to draw.
     See {Tirade}.]
     1. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
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              He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children
              into a forest.                        --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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              As when the sun is present all the year,
              And never doth retire his golden ray. --Sir J.
                                                    Davies.
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     2. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take
        up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
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     3. 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Retired \Re*tired"\, a.
     1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of
        retired habits.
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              A retired part of the peninsula.      --Hawthorne.
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     2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired
        officer; a retired physician.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  retired
       adj 1: no longer active in your work or profession
       2: honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your
          title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in
          `professor emeritus'; `retired from assigned duties' need
          not imply that one is inactive [syn: {emeritus}]
       3: not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at
          second on a close play"; "he fanned out" [syn: {out(p)}]
          [ant: {safe(p)}]
       4: (of a ship) withdrawn from active service; "the ship was
          placed out of service after the war" [syn: {out of service}]
       5: discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a
          pension; "a superannuated civil servant" [syn: {superannuated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "retired":
     abandoned, abjured, anonymous, antiquated, antique, apart, archaic,
     closet, deserted, detached, devious, discontinued, disused,
     done with, emeritus, free, idle, in a backwater, in retirement,
     incognito, inmost, innermost, insular, interior, intimate, inward,
     isolated, leisure, leisured, lonesome, not worth saving,
     obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, on pension,
     on the shelf, open, out, out of use, out-of-date, out-of-the-way,
     out-of-the-world, outdated, outmoded, outworn, past use, pensioned,
     pensioned off, personal, private, privy, quarantined, relinquished,
     remote, removed, renounced, resigned, secluded, secret, segregated,
     semiretired, separate, separated, sequestered, shut off, spare,
     superannuate, superannuated, superseded, unfrequented, unoccupied,
     unvisited, withdrawn, worn-out