"ordered to retire" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a situation in which someone is required to end their career or job because they have been instructed to do so. For example: "The manager was ordered to retire early after a scandal was uncovered."
Hussein Tantawi, head of the armed forces, and the chief of staff, Sami Anan have been ordered to retire but they have been appointed as advisers to Morsi.
See articleIn a rare public reprimand for senior military officers, two American generals were ordered to retire because they failed to defend Camp Bastion in Afghanistan from a Taliban assault last year.
Together with his brother, also an army officer before being ordered to retire last month, he staged a brief military rebellion shortly before Alberto Fujimori, Peru's authoritarian president from 1990-2000, fled to Japan.
Carmel Napier was ordered to retire "or be removed" from Gwent Police after a series of rows with Ian Johnston.
Questions about why Gwent Police's top officer was ordered to "retire or be removed" by the force's police and crime commissioner need to be answered, Wales' first minister has said.
Around this time Slava and her compatriots were ordered to retire to the north while Bayan trailed behind to divert fire from the battleships.
The owners were selling the business in order to retire.
The couple sold a resort community they owned and operated in order to retire early.
The National Institute on Retirement Security calculated 92% of households are financially unprepared for retirement, and that nationally there's a "retirement savings gap" of $6.8tn to $14tn between what those individuals have saved and what they will need in order to retire.
(Hey, what was so wrong about telling Ryan Church to rub some dirt on that concussion?!) Perhaps you'd like to help The Boston Globe's Dan Shaughnessy figure out how Nomar Garciaparra faked his "I love the Red Sox" act, which he pulled off in order to retire in a Boston uniform.
(And that's usually where financial risk gets taken.) Savers invest now in order to retire later.
