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no longer active in your work or profession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4.(of a ship) withdrawn from active service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
buy (something) on credit
to buy something now and pay for it later
We decided to buy the computer on credit because we did not have much money.