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retired
| retired person
| retiree
| retirement
| retirement account
| retirement benefit
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retired
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective retired has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
retired, a.
- Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. [1913 Webster]"A retired part of the peninsula." [1913 Webster]
- Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician. [1913 Webster]
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.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
retired, adj.
1 a having retired from employment (a retired teacher). b relating to a retired person (received retired pay).
2 withdrawn from society or observation; secluded (lives a retired life).
1 a having retired from employment (a retired teacher). b relating to a retired person (received retired pay).
2 withdrawn from society or observation; secluded (lives a retired life).
Derivative
retiredness n.
THESAURUS
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lonesome, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, on pension, on the shelf, open, out, out of use, out-of-date, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outdated, outmoded, outworn, past use, pensioned, pensioned off, personal, private, privy, quarantined, relinquished, remote, removed, renounced, resigned, secluded, secret, segregated, semiretired, separate, separated, sequestered, shut off, spare, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, unfrequented, unoccupied, unvisited, withdrawn, worn-outROGET THESAURUS
retired
Exclusion
N exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation, exile, noninclusion, preclusion, prohibition, separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion, cofferdam, excluding, exclusive, excluded, unrecounted, not included in, inadmissible, exclusive of, barring, except, with the exception of, save, bating, exclusion, seclusion, exclusion, seclusion, privacy, retirement, reclusion, recess, snugness, delitescence, rustication, rus in urbe, solitude, solitariness, isolation, loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile, aloofness, cell, hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum, depopulation, desertion, desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, Old Sarum, exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut, inhospitality, inhospitableness, 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, secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye, out of the world, out of the way, the world forgetting by the world forgot, snug, domestic, stay-at-home, unsociable, unsocial, dissocial, inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic, solitary, lonely, lonesome, isolated, single, estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless, lorn, forlorn, desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast, banished, noli me tangere, among them but not of them, and homeless near a thousand homes I stood, far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, makes a solitude and calls it peace, magna civitas magna solitudo, never less alone than when alone, O sacred solitude! divine retreat!.
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