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# retired

«retired» in Mova's school dictionary: **Retired describes a person who has stopped working…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (retired); verb past form of retire (retire, retires, retired, retiring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Retired describes a person who has stopped working, usually because they are older. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#m1)

2) (verb, past) Retired means stopped working for good. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#m2)

3) (formal) Retired can mean went to bed or went away to a quiet place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#m3)

4) In sport, a player retired means stopped playing, sometimes because of injury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life grandparents may be retired and get a pension. In stories «He retired to his room» means he went off quietly. In sport «retired hurt» means a player left the game injured. Phrases: a retired teacher, retired early, retired from.

### examples

- My grandad is a retired teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#x1)
- She retired from the police at sixty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#x2)
- Nan has been retired for years and loves her garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#x3)
- (formal) After supper the guests retired to bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#x4)
- The batsman retired hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#x5)
- The old ship was retired and turned into a museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#x6)
- My neighbour retired early and moved to the seaside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#x7)
- Then he retired, without awaiting any reply from the princess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/#x8)

### note

Past of «retire»; the noun is «retirement», a retired person is a «retiree» or «pensioner». «Retired» does not mean «tired again» — a common joke. Retired from a job, not «retired of».

### In the corpora

- [Some retired people miss the routine, their workmates and the feeling of being useful.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «retired» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retired/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.