retireとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈtaɪɹ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: re‧tire

動詞

retire (三人称単数 現在形 retires, 現在分詞 retiring, 過去形および過去分詞形 retired)

1. (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.

   Having made a large fortune, he retired.

   He wants to retire at 55.

   She decided to retire from her banking job due to stress.

2. (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127:

     He […] retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest.

   • 1592, John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul

     As when the sun is present all the year, / And never doth retire his golden ray.

3. (transitive) To cease use or production of something.

   The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company.

   • 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63:

     Only now, due to the COVID-19-associated drop in traffic, are they being retired with 12 of the 30 trains moved to Landore (Swansea) for warm storage.

4. (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.

   The central bank retired those notes five years ago.

5. (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.

   The board retired the old major.

6. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.

   Jones retired in favour of Smith.

7. (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout.

   Jones retired Smith 6-3.

8. (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.

   I will retire to the study.

   to retire from the world

   to retire from the public eye

9. (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.

   to retire from battle

   The regiment retired from the fray after the Major was killed.

10. (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.

    Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves.

11. (intransitive) To go to bed.

    I will retire for the night.

12. (transitive) To remove or cease to use.

    When a hurricane becomes so deadly or destructive that future use would be insensitive, officials may retire the name of the hurricane.

派生語

関連する語

• tirer

名詞

retire (複数形 retires)

1. (rare) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
2. A place to which one retires.

   Synonym: retreat

3. (dated) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

   At the retire, the cavalry fell back.