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semiretired

American  
[sem-ee-ri-tahy-erd, sem-ahy-] / ˌsɛm i rɪˈtaɪ ərd, ˌsɛm aɪ- /

adjective

  1. working part-time after having retired from full-time employment; partly retired.


Example Sentences

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He was semiretired after selling a startup for more than $100 million in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal

A lone semiretired Austrian coder built Moltbot and unleashed it on the world.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Paul—Paul Larkin?—he tipped me off that they had a purchase and sales opening at the place where he works. He’s semiretired, so he’s not interested, but he gave me the owner’s number, said to use his name, and so yesterday afternoon I did. Me and this guy—Mr. Mills—hit it off, and he told me to come in for an interview. It’s the off-season, but he said they do a brisk business during the holidays.”

From Literature

Harstine, 70, a semiretired orchard packer, said he has noticed Hispanic men bicycling through the area.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, he’s a semiretired entrepreneur who lives in Florida, near Mar-a-Lago, and has a hobby of writing parody songs.

From The Wall Street Journal