Usually means: Cease working, begin leisure period.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. retire: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. retire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. retire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. retire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Retire, retire: Wordnik
  7. retire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. retire: Wiktionary
  9. retire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. retire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. retire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. retire: Dictionary.com
  13. retire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. retire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Retire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Retire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. retire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. retire: Rhymezone
  19. retire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. retire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. retire: Free Dictionary
  22. retire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. retire: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. retire: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. retire: Law.com Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Retire: bizterms.net
  7. retire: Legal dictionary
  8. retire: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retire: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. retire: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Retire: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Retire: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
verb:  (intransitive, sports) To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
verb:  (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
verb:  (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
verb:  (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
verb:  (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
verb:  (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.
verb:  (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
verb:  (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
verb:  (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
verb:  (intransitive) To go to bed.
noun:  (rare) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
noun:  A place to which one retires.
noun:  (dated) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
verb:  (transitive, American spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.

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