retire

Definitions

Accounting

• verb to make an employee stop work and take a pension

Banking

• verb to come to the end of an elected term of office

Cricket

• verb (of a batsman) to leave the field during one’s innings without being dismissed and (in some cases) with the option of resuming the innings at a later stage
• verb to leave the field having been dismissed; be out
  Citation ‘He and Parr played steadily together until Parr received a trimmer from Mr. Fisher, which caused him to retire’ (Lillywhite 1860)

Law

• verb to make an employee stop working permanently
• verb to go away from a court for a period of time

Medical

• verb to stop work at a particular age

Military

• verb to move away from the enemy
• verb to move back towards your own forces or territory

Nearby Definitions of “retire”

• resistance
• resolution
• resonance
• rest
• Restoration drama
• retire
• return
• reverse
• reverse sweep
• reverse swing
• revue

Contexts for “retire”

9 definitions in context
• Accounting
• Banking
• Cricket
• Law
• Medical
• Military