"retiring party" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to a party thrown for an individual who is retiring from a job. For example: My boss is throwing a retirement party next week to celebrate his many years of service.
The move set off rumors connecting the dead driver to a recently retired party leader, Jia Qinglin, who was infuriated and took his grievance to Mr. Jiang, the former president.
To defend some of the seats in heavily Republican states where Democrats were retiring, the party recruited talented candidates like Heidi Heitkamp, a former North Dakota secretary of state.
In the north of the state, where a Democratic representative, Bud Cramer, is retiring, his party managed to hold his seat in a hard-fought contest.
Although the news was not unexpected — Mr. Talabani has a heart ailment and has often spoken casually of retiring — his party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, is in disarray, and it is deeply divided about who should be his successor.
In 1970, after retiring as party secretary, he acquired a patch of woodland where he could resume his passion for forestry.
Marley does not want to retire, and the retirement party entertainment is filled with music praising Mr. Burns.
He retired as party general secretary in November 2002, and stepped down from his final major post, chairman of the Central Military Commission, nearly two years later.
Mr. Jiang, who retired as party chief in 2002 and as president in 2003, has since left the hospital but remains in poor health, said several people who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate situation.
Richard Lynch London I'm a retired Tory party activist but also a long-time reader of the Guardian, a paper that strives for accuracy and intelligently challenges my prejudices.
