retirement

Leaving your job or career permanently, usually because you have reached a certain age.

• His retirement is next month.
• She took early retirement at fifty.
• Are you saving enough for retirement?

How to use it: retirement from something (She announced her retirement from teaching.)

Common phrases: early retirement, retirement age, announce retirement

A quiet life away from other people and public activity.

• She preferred the peace of retirement.
• He lived in retirement in a remote cottage.
• They left public life for quiet retirement in the country.

How to use it: in retirement (The former ruler lived in retirement far from the capital.)

Similar words: seclusion, withdrawal

Common phrases: live in retirement, quiet retirement, peaceful retirement