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retinue, n. suite, train, attendance, cortege, entourage, court, following, satellites, Archaic, meiny; escort, bodyguard, guard, convoy; personnel, staff, employees, the help, hired help.
retire, v. 1. withdraw, go apart, isolate oneself, secede, separate oneself; rusticate, hibernate, estivate; leave, depart, decamp, take off, go off, go away, abscond; exit, take one's leave; retreat, fall or draw back, give way, lose ground, take flight, flee, beat a retreat; recede, retrocede, ebb.
2. go to bed, turn in, call it a day, consult one's pillow, Sl. sack in or sack out, Sl. hit the hay, Sl. hit the sack.
3. resign, abdicate; give up work, stop working, cease employment, take early retirement; go on Social Security, collect one's pension, be pensioned; take mandatory retirement, be shelved, be put on the shelf, be superannuated.
4. redeem, call in, recover, reclaim, buy back, pay off.
5. (of machinery) discard, throw out, scrap, Inf. junk, abandon use of, withdraw from service, disuse.
retired, adj. 1. pensioned, on social security, unemployed; superannuated, shelved, on the shelf, discharged, dismissed, let go, Fig. discarded, Fig. cast aside; elderly, aged.
2. withdrawn, secluded, sequestered, Archaic, sequestrated; isolated, removed, solitary; secret, private, hidden, covert; unfrequented, unvisited, apart, remote, outlying, in a backwater, in the backwoods, out-of-the-way.
retiree, n. pensioner, pensionary; senior citizen, Euph. golden-ager; oldster, old-timer, veteran, gray-beard; sexagenarian, septuagenerian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; (all collectively) the elderly, the aged, the retired, Inf. seniors; All Fig. discard, reject, castoff, castaway.
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.
retiring, adj. reserved, shy, bashful, diffident, shrinking, timorous, timid, Archaic, verecund; modest, unpretentious, demure, coy, humble, unassuming, meek, unobtrusive, unofficious; quiet, untalkative, uncommunicative, taciturn, unsocial, unsociable, reticent, private, self-contained, Inf. introverted; withdrawn, in a shell, distant, aloof, unapproachable, stand-offish, Inf. offish; solitary, reclusive, eremitic, eremitical, cenobitic.
retort, v. 1. answer, give answer, reply, respond, acknowledge; rejoin, riposte, return, come back, flash back, Inf. crack back, Inf. shoot back.
2. retaliate, reciprocate, reply in kind, return the compliment, give tit for tat, give measure for measure, give like for like, give a quid pro quo; pay [s.o.] in his own coin, Inf. give [s.o.] a dose of his own medicine.
3. rebut, contradict, confute, refute, counter, counterclaim.
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