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{
"term": "retire",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "retire",
"heSheIt": "retires"
},
"pastSimple": "retired",
"pastParticiple": "retired",
"ingForm": "retiring"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to leave your job and stop working, especially because you have reached a particular age or because you are ill; to tell somebody they must stop doing their job",
"sensetop": "retire from somethingretire to somethingretire as somethingretire somebody",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He is retiring next year after 30 years with the company."
},
{
"text": "The company's official retiring age is 65."
},
{
"text": "Lots of teachers like me expected to retire on a full pension."
},
{
"text": "She was forced to retire early from teaching because of ill health.",
"contextForm": "retire from something"
},
{
"text": "She retired from politics after her second term in office."
},
{
"text": "My dream is to retire to a villa in France.",
"contextForm": "retire to something"
},
{
"text": "He has no plans to retire as editor of the magazine.",
"contextForm": "retire as something"
},
{
"text": "She was retired on medical grounds.",
"contextForm": "retire somebody"
},
{
"text": "As for me, I am quite ready to retire."
},
{
"text": "He is hoping to retire early on medical grounds."
},
{
"text": "He recently retired as CEO of the company."
},
{
"text": "He recently retired as head teacher of their school."
},
{
"text": "I'm hoping to retire in about five years."
},
{
"text": "In a few years, I'll be eligible to retire."
},
{
"text": "Most employees retire at 60."
},
{
"text": "Mr McNeil is due to retire later this month."
},
{
"text": "She recently retired from teaching."
},
{
"text": "She has decided to retire from international tennis."
},
{
"text": "He officially retired from the day-to-day operations of his company."
},
{
"text": "She retired from the bank last year."
},
{
"text": "She simply couldn't afford to retire at sixty."
},
{
"text": "She's on course to retire quite comfortably by the time she's 55."
},
{
"text": "a newly retired couple"
},
{
"text": "He was medically retired at the age of 55."
}
],
"topics": ["Life stages", "Jobs"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["early", "recently", "officially"],
"verb + retire": ["be forced to", "be obliged to", "have to"],
"preposition": ["as", "at", "from"],
"phrases": ["newly retired", "recently retired", "be medically retired"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to stop competing during a game, race, etc., usually because you are injured",
"sensetop": "retire (from something)+ adj.",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She fell badly, spraining her ankle, and had to retire.",
"contextForm": "retire (from something)"
},
{
"text": "He retired hurt in the first five minutes of the game.",
"contextForm": "+ adj."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to leave a place, especially to go somewhere quieter or more private",
"sensetop": "retire to something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The jury retired to consider the evidence."
},
{
"text": "After dinner he likes to retire to his study.",
"contextForm": "retire to something"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to move back from a battle in order to organize your soldiers in a different way",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to go to bed",
"labels": "(literary)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I retired late that evening."
},
{
"text": "to retire to bed/for the night"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "to make a player or team have to stop their turn at batting",
"sensetop": "retire somebody",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He retired twelve batters in a row."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪə(r)/",
"audio": "re/retire/retire__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪəz/",
"audio": "re/retire/retires__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪəd/",
"audio": "re/retire/retired__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪərɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/retire/retiring__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪər/",
"audio": "re/retire/retire__us_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪərz/",
"audio": "re/retire/retires__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪərd/",
"audio": "re/retire/retired__us_4.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪərɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/retire/retiring__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘withdraw to a place of safety or seclusion’): from French retirer, from re- ‘back’ + tirer ‘draw’."
}