# retire
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle French retirer (“draw back”), from Old French retirer, built from re- (“back”) + tirer (“draw, pull”), the latter from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre, of highly uncertain origin.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
* (General American) IPA: /ɹəˈtaɪɹ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: re‧tire

#### Verb

retire (third-person singular simple present retires, present participle retiring, simple past and past participle retired)
* (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
    Having made a large fortune, he retired.
    He wants to retire at 55.
    She decided to retire from her banking job due to stress.
** 2022 September 21, Chris Green tells Nick Brodrick, “It's absolutely my favourite train”, in RAIL, number 966, page 37:Green will never forget "that was the day I retired - the absolute crowning event of my life and I was very proud of that.
* (intransitive, sports) To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
    I have decided to retire from football at the end of the season after the World Cup.
* (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
** a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:He […] retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest.
** 1592, John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul:As when the sun is present all the year, / And never doth retire his golden ray.
* (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
    The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company.
    When a hurricane becomes so deadly or destructive that future use would be insensitive, officials may retire the name of the hurricane.
** 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63:Only now, due to the COVID-19-associated drop in traffic, are they being retired with 12 of the 30 trains moved to Landore (Swansea) for warm storage.
* (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
    The central bank retired those notes five years ago.
* (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
    The board retired the old major.
** 1988 November 27, “How Richard Gere Learned To Reach Out”, in Parade (The Spokesman-Review), page 10, column 3:How had it felt, at 28, to be the hottest young actor in town? He [Richard Gere] grinned. “It was great having the attention,” he said. “I thought: ‘This is it! I’ve done it! I’m going to retire my father. I’m putting money away for college for my sisters,’ the whole thing. It’s incredibly euphorious. All of a sudden the rehearsal period of your life is over, and your future has arrived. It’s liberating.”
** 2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired‎, →ISSN:By the time I first spoke to Magana in late 2022, 25/7 Media’s success had given him some measure of financial security. “The truth is that I just retired my parents,” he told me two days after Christmas.
* (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
    Jones retired in favour of Smith.
* (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.
    Jones retired Smith 6-3.
    Jones makes the catch for the third out, and that retires the side.
* (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
    I will retire to the study.
    to retire from the world
    to retire from the public eye
* (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
    to retire from battle
    The regiment retired from the fray after the Major was killed.
* (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
    Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves.
* (intransitive) To go to bed.
    I will retire for the night.
** 1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:In the daytime the beds are made up but completely out of sight, giving the passenger a comfortable little private room; as the time for retiring comes, after preparing for rest in the same spacious conditions, he is able, practically at a touch, to pull the bed into position ready for use.

##### Derived terms

* (cricket): retire hurt
* retiree
* retirement
* retirer
* retire the side

##### Related terms

* tirer

##### Translations
#### Noun

retire (plural retires)
* (rare) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
* A place to which one retires.
    Synonym: retreat
* (dated) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
    At the retire, the cavalry fell back.

### Etymology 2

From re- +‎ tire.

#### Alternative forms

* retyre

#### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ɹiˈtaɪɚ/

#### Verb

retire (third-person singular simple present retires, present participle retiring, simple past and past participle retired)
* (transitive, American spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.

### Anagrams

* Terrie, reiter, retier, étrier

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

retire
* inflection of retirer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* étirer, étrier, itérer

## Portuguese
### Verb

retire
* inflection of retirar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /reˈtiɾe/ [reˈt̪i.ɾe]
* Rhymes: -iɾe
* Syllabification: re‧ti‧re

### Verb

retire
* inflection of retirar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative