Word Finder - retirement

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An act of retiring; withdrawal.

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The state of being retired; seclusion.

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A place of seclusion or privacy; a retreat.

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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.

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The act of leaving one's career or employment permanently.

He's a week from retirement and he seems to be something of a maverick.

The retirement of the center to the other side of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the different companies did not get mixed.

He spent the rest of his life in retirement, dying at Wellington on the 16th of May 1862.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

He'll be at my retirement.

Delicacy of health compelled his retirement in the autumn of 1835.

As in his active career he had wrought organic changes in the ordering, direction and control of fleets, so by his historic studies, pursued after his retirement, he helped greatly to effect, if he did not exclusively initiate, an equally momentous change in the popular, and even the professional, way of regarding sea-power and its conditions.

At that table were his mother, his mother's old lady companion Belova, his wife, their three children with their governess and tutor, his wife's nephew with his tutor, Sonya, Denisov, Natasha, her three children, their governess, and old Michael Ivanovich, the late prince's architect, who was living on in retirement at Bald Hills.

After the retirement of the British troops in 1814 the constitution lapsed, and the royal authority became once more absolute.

In 1846 Wakefield, exhausted with labour, was struck down by apoplexy, and spent more than a year in complete retirement, writing during his gradual recovery his Art of Colonization.

The first recorded headmaster after the foundation of the college, John Melton, had been presented by Wykeham to the mastership of this hospital in 1393 shortly before his retirement.

After his retirement from the public service in 1863 he supported in the Bohemian Landtag and the Austrian Reichsrat the federal policy of his brother Leo.

There he spent eleven months in uneasy retirement, watching with close interest the course of events in France.

Following the retirement of Sir Robert Borden in 1919 he was chosen to succeed him as leader of the Union Government.

The great battle at this place, fought on the 5th and 6th of July, ended in the retirement of the Austrians.

After his release he visited Europe, and spent the last years of his life in retirement, during which he wrote his Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (2 vols., 1881).

His father having died in 1753, Hulse succeeded to his estates in Cheshire, where, owing to feeble health, he lived in retirement till his death in December 1790.

In retirement she could devote herself wholly to art and science, and the opportunity of astonishing the world by the unique spectacle of a great queen, in the prime of life, voluntarily resigning her crown, strongly appealed to her vivid imagination.

The first deals with mere party questions without sincerity and without depth; and the second, composed as an amusement in retirement without any serious preparation, in their attacks on metaphysics and theology and in their feeble deism present no originality and carry no conviction.

After his return to America he remained in retirement at Concord until the day of his death, the 8th of October 1869.

The government agents who dogged him have given up chase for the so called tipster so he is free to finally enjoy his retirement.

Shortly before his acquittal he had been able to satisfy the dream of his childhood, by buying back the ancestral manor of Daylesford, where the remainder of his life was passed in honourable retirement.

That effort was followed by great physical prostration, and he determined not to quit his retirement at Midhurst until spring had fairly set in.

The last years of Tooke's life were spent in retirement in a house on the west side of Wimbledon Common.

The collapse of the federal idea and the definite triumph of the party of reaction in 1852 led to his retirement from politics.

On the retirement of Beust in 1871, Andrassy was appointed his successor, the first instance, since Hungary came beneath the dominion of the Habsburgs, of an Hungarian statesman being entrusted with the conduct of foreign affairs.

In 1043, after Edward the Confessor had become king he seized the greater part of Emma's great wealth, and the queen lived in retirement at Winchester until her death on the 6th of March 1052.

Cantacuzene, whom he accompanied in his retirement to a monastery.

That a retirement of this kind was a hazardous undertaking was realized from the outset.

After 1830 he adhered to the monarchy of July, but after 1848 he remained in retirement.

For some years after his father's execution Govind Singh, then known as Gobind Rai, lived in retirement, brooding over the wrongs of his people and the persecutions of the fanatical Aurangzeb.

Emerging from his retirement he preached the Khalsa, the "pure," and it is by this name his followers are now known.

Attached to the party of Bernadotte, he was looked on with suspicion by the imperial police, and during the later years of the empire spent his time in retirement at Provence.

From this time he lived mostly in retirement, finding a congenial home with Lord Weymouth, his friend from college days, at Longleat in Wiltshire; and though pressed to resume his diocese in 1703, upon the death of Bishop Kidder, he declined, partly on the ground of growing weakness, but partly no doubt from his love for the quiet life of devotion which he was able to lead at Longleat.

Most of Nasir's lyrical poems - were composed in his retirement, and their chief topics are - an enthusiastic praise of `Ali, his descendants, and Mostansir in particular; passionate outcries against Khorasan and its rulers, who had driven him from house and home; the highest satisfaction with the quiet solitude of Yumgan; and utter despondency again in seeing himself despised by his former associates and for ever excluded from participation in the glorious contest of life.

At Riad, Fesal, who had been in power since the Egyptian retirement, was still reigning; and the religious tyranny of Wahhabism prevailed, in marked contrast to the liberal regime of Talal in Jebel Shammar.

This reverse set all Yemen aflame; under the leadership of the imam, who had, since the Turkish occupation, lived in retirement at Sada, 120 m.

After his retirement (February 21, 1905) he brought out in two volumes a catalogue and description of the printed books and MSS.

At this time he was already so much the coming man that, upon the retirement of Count Lobanov, his mother-in-law, Countess Toll, saw fit to inform Count Muraviev that her son-in-law, upon his appointment as foreign minister, would bear him in mind.

He lived to see the World War of 1914 and the Russian revolution of 1917, which forced him into impoverished retirement at his villa at Biarritz.

Regarding the remainder of his life little is known, and the accounts handed down are contradictory, but he appears to have spent the most of it in retirement at his estate near Porto.

It is fair to assume that Grant would have followed other unsuccessful generals into retirement, had he not shown that, whatever his mistakes or failures, and whether he was or was not sober and temperate in his habits, he possessed the iron determination and energy which in the eyes of Lincoln and Stanton,' and of the whole Northern people, was the first requisite of their generals.

With his retirement or recall from Cappadocia his official career came to an end.

At Christmas 1867 Lord Russell announced his final retirement from active politics, and Gladstone was recognized by acclamation as leader of the Liberal party.

For some years he had alluded to his impending retirement from public life, saying that he was "strong against going on in politics to the end."

He was now sixty-four, and his life had been a continuous experience of exhausting Temporary p g retirement.

Since his retirement from office Gladstone's physical vigour, up to that time unequalled, had shown signs of impairment.

He was recalled to Rome, where he lived a life of studied retirement, to avoid the possibility of giving offence to the tyrant.

He actively supported the Waldeck-Rousseau ministry, and upon its retirement in 1903 he was himself charged with the formation of a cabinet.

The remainder of his life may be divided into four portions - his opposition to Pitt during the session of 1784; his parliamentary activity till his secession in 1797; his retirement till 1800; his return to activity and his short tenure of office before his death in 1806.