Definition: 1. No longer active in your work or profession. 2. Honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title 'emeritus' as in 'professor emeritus'; 'retired from assigned duties' need not imply that one is inactive. 3. Not allowed to continue to bat or run. 4. (of a ship) withdrawn from active service. 5. Discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a pension.
Use 'retired' in a sentence:
1. She retired a few months ago.
2. Meir Dagan, the retired Mossad chief, talks about an Israeli strike on Iran as the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
3. Eastwood plays retired gunfighter Will Munny.
4. "Since I retired to this place," he wrote near the end of his life, "I have never been out of these mountains."
5. He retired in 1970, on his fiftieth birthday.
6. She decided to swim across the English Channel before she retired.
7. Simon, how does it feel to be retired?
8. Retired Coadjutor Bishop Peter Zhang Zhiyong, 80, who is not recognized by the government, was also present in the election.
9. He was 52 and had retired to Stratford three years before.
10. He retired in his fifties.
11. He retired twelve batters in a row.
12. He had buried his wife some two years before he retired.
13. My father had just retired.
14. I've persuaded Mrs. Tennant that it's time she retired.
15. He was voted horse of the year and then was retired to stud.
16. The regimental HQ is a tiny office manned by two retired officers.
17. The wisdom of the retired generals and anti-war protesters conjoins.
18. When he retired, he tried to distance himself from politics.
19. Not having to get up early is just one of the perks of being retired.
20. He retired early on grounds of ill health.
21. By the age of 25 she was completely burned out and retired from the sport.
22. At 71, he has now retired from the political fray.
23. I thought she had retired, but apparently she hasn't.
24. They retired and went to live upstate.
25. She retired last year but still teaches the odd class to keep her hand in.
26. When the chairman of Campbell's retired, McGovern was named as his successor.
27. I'd put them both down as retired teachers.
28. He retired hurt in the first five minutes of the game.
29. She retired early on account of ill health.
30. I retired late that evening.
31. How do you fill your day now that you've retired?
32. He retired long before the war.
33. Dad is retired now.
34. The jury retired to consider the evidence.
35. She was retired on medical grounds.
36. Since she retired she's kept herself very busy.
