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Another word for retirement

retirement Synonyms

retirement

n.

The act of retiring
relinquishment, resignation, abandonment, vacating, evacuation, separation, removal, handing over, laying down, egressing, exiting, retreating, withdrawal, going away, leaving, secession, departure, recession, retreat, regression, abdication, severance.
Antonyms arrival*, entrance, taking up.
The state of being retired
seclusion, sequestration, aloofness, apartness, separateness, privacy, concealment, solitude, solitariness, isolation, remoteness, loneliness, quiet, retreat, tranquillity, refuge, serenity, inactivity, superannuation.
Antonyms exposure*, activity, association.

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Another word for retirement

noun

The act of secluding or the state of being secluded:
reclusion, seclusion, sequestration. See include
The moving back of a military force in the face of enemy attack or after a defeat:
fallback, pullback, pullout, retreat, withdrawal. See forward

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He's a week from retirement and he seems to be something of a maverick.
The retirement of the center to the other side of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the different companies did not get mixed.
He spent the rest of his life in retirement, dying at Wellington on the 16th of May 1862.
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.
12), prevented its being made effective until after the mover's retirement from political life.

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