Other forms: retirements
Retirement is the years after you stop working for good. Take early retirement, in retirement, a retirement party.
The state pension age varies by country and keeps rising; retirement age is no longer a fixed thing in most places. Common phrases: early retirement, retirement fund, retirement home, come out of retirement. In sport, retirement often comes at thirty-five and is frequently reversed. Note that retirement also means withdrawal generally — the retirement of a debt or an old aircraft — which is the older and broader sense.
1nounretirementThe years after somebody stops working for good.
“My parents are enjoying their retirement by the sea.”
2nounactThe act of stopping work or withdrawing something.
“The retirement of the older aircraft took three years.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
retirement is a withdrawal from work.
French retirer is re-, back, plus tirer, to draw — to draw back. Retire, retreat and retirement are the same idea, and the sense of leaving work permanently is only about two hundred years old.
French
retirement
English, today
retirement
Built from
From French retirement, from retirer (“withdraw, retire”); corresponding to retire + ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA