retirement

retirement
n
1. removal, withdrawal; retreat, flight, departure, evacuation, countermarch; reversion, regression, retrogression, recession, retrocession, retrogradation; (all in reference to employment) severance, separation, leaving, parting, resignation, abandonment, forsaking, abdication, relinquishment.
2.All Euph. the golden years, the golden age, leisure years, retired years, sunset years, evening of life.
3. privacy, seclusion, sequestration; solitude, isolation, loneliness; concealment, obscurity, reclusion, exile, anchoritism, monasticism; aloofness, unsociability, separateness; recess, rest, respite, sabbatical.
4. retreat, hermitage, covert, hideaway; cloister, monastery, abbey, priory; refuge, haven, resort, sanctuary; den, lair, cave, grotto, hibernaculum, hiber-nacle.

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