Other Word Forms
- nonretired adjective
- quasi-retired adjective
- retiredly adverb
- retiredness noun
- self-retired adjective
- semiretired adjective
- unretired adjective
Etymology
Origin of retired
Example Sentences
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“Iran has crossed a line,” said retired British Air Marshal Martin Sampson, executive director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies—Middle East in Bahrain.
“People are really scared,” said a retired oil executive who packed his bags and fled for his villa on the Caspian Sea after watching missiles flying over Tehran.
A retired friend told me that she and her husband don’t have dental insurance because it costs too much and covers too little, and it turns out they’re not alone.
From Los Angeles Times
“Suddenly everyone took action and many coal plants were on the chopping block or getting retired,” McMahon said.
A retired shopkeeper who was told he was not British despite living in the UK for nearly five decades said he is "over the moon" to have been finally made a British citizen.
From BBC
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