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Retired

Retired Meaning & Definition
Retired Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Retired?

[adj] no longer active in your work or profession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[adj] (of a ship) withdrawn from active service; "the ship was placed out of service after the war"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Retired: down(p) | emeritus | inactive | old | out of commission | out of service | out(p) | superannuated

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Retired In Webster's Dictionary

\Re*tired"\, a. 1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. --Hawthorne. 2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician. {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. -- {Re*tired"ly}, adv. -- {Re*tired"ness}, n.

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