retire

re|tire [ rı`taır ] verb **

▸ 1 stop working

▸ 2 leave for quieter life

▸ 3 leave game/competition

▸ 4 in baseball

▸ 5 get rid of

▸ 6 go to bed

1. ) intransitive to stop working, especially when you reach the age when you are officially too old to work:

retire from: He retired from the army last month.

retire as: Mr. Garroway retired as chairman of the historical society in May.

a ) intransitive to stop playing a sport as a professional player because you are too old

b ) transitive to force someone to leave their job, especially before they reach the age when they are officially too old to work

2. ) intransitive FORMAL to leave a place, position, or way of life in order to go somewhere quieter or live a less active life:

The committee will now retire in order to discuss these issues.

retire from: At the age of 83, she finally retired from public life.

retire to: In the evenings, Lloyd retired to his study to write.

3. ) intransitive or transitive to stop taking part in a game or sports competition because you are injured or sick, or to make someone do this:

He retired hurt with a bloody nose.

4. ) transitive AMERICAN in baseball, to end a BATTER'S or team's turn at BATTING by getting the batter out:

The pitcher retired eight batters before the eighth inning.

5. ) transitive to remove machines or equipment from a place because they are old and no longer useful:

My printer was three years old, so I retired it.

a ) AMERICAN to stop using a particular number on a team's uniforms after the player who used to wear that number stops playing

6. ) intransitive MAINLY LITERARY to go to bed at the end of the day in order to sleep