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 →

2) Retirement is the time of life after someone has stopped working. tree →

3) In sport, retirement is when a player stops playing. tree →

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 →
• We had a retirement party for our head teacher. tree →
• She took early retirement to travel the world. tree →
• The footballer announced his retirement. tree →
• Nan moved into a retirement home near the sea. tree →
• People often save money for their retirement. tree →
• 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 →

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.
• "Golden years" means old age, the years after retirement.
• "A retirement community" is a housing estate built for old people.
• "Early retirement" often means being pushed out of a job before the usual age.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «retirement» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.