adj.
1.no longer active in your work or profession
2.honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'
3.not allowed to continue to bat or run
4.(of a ship) withdrawn from active service
5.discharged as too old for use or work
Idiom of the Day
hit bottom
to be at the very lowest, to not be able to go any lower
The economy hit bottom last year but it is finally starting to improve.