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no longer active in your work or profession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4.(of a ship) withdrawn from active service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
line one's own pockets
to make money for oneself in a dishonest way
The local politician was lining his own pockets and did not win another election.
