retirement
/ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ).mənt/ sustantivo B2En español: jubilación, retirada
- An act of retiring; withdrawal.
- The state of being retired; seclusion.
- The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
- The act of leaving one's career or employment permanently.
Plural retirements
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They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid--darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
The subjection in which his father had brought him up had given him originally great humility of manner; but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feelings of early and unexpected prosperity.
I love retirement and silence, because I can live with my thoughts and recollections of past days.
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