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# retirement

«retirement» in Mova's school dictionary: **the time when a person stops working for good, usually…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (retirement, retirements)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Retirement is the time when a person stops working for good, usually because they are older. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retirement/#m1)

2) Retirement is the time of life after someone has stopped working. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retirement/#m2)

3) In sport, retirement is when a player stops playing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retirement/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a person gets a pension in retirement and may enjoy hobbies or grandchildren. A retirement party says goodbye to someone leaving work. In maths problems people save money for retirement. Phrases: take early retirement, retirement age, retirement home.

### examples

- Grandpa enjoys his retirement by fishing every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retirement/#x1)
- We had a retirement party for our head teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retirement/#x2)
- She took early retirement to travel the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retirement/#x3)
- The footballer announced his retirement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retirement/#x4)
- Nan moved into a retirement home near the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retirement/#x5)
- People often save money for their retirement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retirement/#x6)
- As for the Hippogriff, he accepted the position of the King's Own Rocking Horse--a situation left vacant by the retirement of the wooden one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retirement/#x7)

### note

Noun from «retire». Usually uncountable; countable when talking about separate events (several retirements). A retirement home is a place where older people live with some help.

### In the corpora

- [At the other end of working life comes retirement, when people stop paid work for good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/4/)
- ["Golden years" means old age, the years after retirement.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/19/)
- ["A retirement community" is a housing estate built for old people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/8/)
- ["Early retirement" often means being pushed out of a job before the usual age.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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