{
    "term": "retire",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "retire",
            "heSheIt": "retires"
        },
        "pastSimple": "retired",
        "pastParticiple": "retired",
        "ingForm": "retiring"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to leave your job and stop working, especially because you have reached a particular age or because you are ill; to tell somebody they must stop doing their job",
            "sensetop": "retire from somethingretire to somethingretire as somethingretire somebody",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He is retiring next year after 30 years with the company."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company's official retiring age is 65."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lots of teachers like me expected to retire on a full pension."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was forced to retire early from teaching because of ill health.",
                    "contextForm": "retire from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She retired from politics after her second term in office."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My dream is to retire to a villa in France.",
                    "contextForm": "retire to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has no plans to retire as editor of the magazine.",
                    "contextForm": "retire as something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was retired on medical grounds.",
                    "contextForm": "retire somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "As for me, I am quite ready to retire."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is hoping to retire early on medical grounds."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He recently retired as CEO of the company."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He recently retired as head teacher of their school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm hoping to retire in about five years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In a few years, I'll be eligible to retire."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most employees retire at 60."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mr McNeil is due to retire later this month."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She recently retired from teaching."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has decided to retire from international tennis."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He officially retired from the day-to-day operations of his company."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She retired from the bank last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She simply couldn't afford to retire at sixty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's on course to retire quite comfortably by the time she's 55."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a newly retired couple"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was medically retired at the age of 55."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages", "Jobs"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["early", "recently", "officially"],
                "verb + retire": ["be forced to", "be obliged to", "have to"],
                "preposition": ["as", "at", "from"],
                "phrases": ["newly retired", "recently retired", "be medically retired"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to stop competing during a game, race, etc., usually because you are injured",
            "sensetop": "retire (from something)+ adj.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She fell badly, spraining her ankle, and had to retire.",
                    "contextForm": "retire (from something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He retired hurt in the first five minutes of the game.",
                    "contextForm": "+ adj."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to leave a place, especially to go somewhere quieter or more private",
            "sensetop": "retire to something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The jury retired to consider the evidence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "After dinner he likes to retire to his study.",
                    "contextForm": "retire to something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to move back from a battle in order to organize your soldiers in a different way",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to go to bed",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I retired late that evening."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to retire to bed/for the night"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to make a player or team have to stop their turn at batting",
            "sensetop": "retire somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He retired twelve batters in a row."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪə(r)/",
                "audio": "re/retire/retire__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪəz/",
                "audio": "re/retire/retires__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪəd/",
                "audio": "re/retire/retired__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪərɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/retire/retiring__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪər/",
                "audio": "re/retire/retire__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪərz/",
                "audio": "re/retire/retires__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪərd/",
                "audio": "re/retire/retired__us_4.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈtaɪərɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/retire/retiring__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘withdraw to a place of safety or seclusion’): from French retirer, from re- ‘back’ + tirer ‘draw’."
}