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Discover LudwigThe word "retire" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you are referring to someone ending their career or leaving their job as a result of reaching a certain age. Example sentence: After forty years of working as a teacher, Mark decided to retire and take some time to relax.
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retire
verb
To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
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McDonald's non-executive chairman, Andrew McKenna, is still chairman at 85, despite being meant to retire in 2003 when he reached the company's then mandatory retirement age of 73.
Senna finally joined Williams himself for the 1994 campaign, with Prost deciding to retire as he refused to be his team-mate again.
He would eventually retire to North Wales, where he died in 1884.
There's plenty of sand to walk, a couple of beach bars to retire to and, of course, superb, swimmable sea.
Thoughts of reform should focus on the young When George Osborne told the 400,000 people who retire every year with an annuity that they could now do whatever they liked with the money, it immediately sparked concerns about a renewed buy-to-let boom.
Sir Mervyn King will retire from Threadneedle Street on 30 June after a decade at the helm, and will become a member of the House of Lords after his nomination by the prime minister for his "significant public service".
The other major tax relief with pensions comes when you retire.
The Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Gareth Bale was not considered because of a back problem, but the West Ham United defender Danny Gabbidon is back in the squad after reversing his decision to retire from international football.
Older women are especially vulnerable to these kinds of changes given they retire with an average superannuation of almost half that received by men.
In my opinion, two sets of people are being killed here – ambulance personnel, slowly and surely before we retire; and patients dying because we are on unnecessary call-outs when they need us.
In this week's episode Colvin's informal adviser, the Deacon – who has been harsh on Hamsterdam before – criticises Bunny for choosing to retire before seeing his experiment through.
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