retirement (n.)
- abandonment
- abdication
- abstention
- abstinence
- acquittal
- acquittance
- aloofness
- amortization
- anonymity
- apartheid
- backwardness
- bashfulness
- binder
- blankness
- cash
- chilliness
- clearance
- coldness
- confidentiality
- conge
- constraint
- convenience
- coolness
- decampment
- defrayal
- defrayment
- departure
- deposit
- deposition
- deprivation
- desuetude
- detachment
- dethronement
- disbarment
- disbursal
- discharge
- discreetness
- discretion
- disengagement
- dismissal
- displacement
- distance
- disuse
- earnest
- ease
- egress
- escape
- evacuation
- excommunication
- exit
- exodus
- expulsion
- fallback
- firing
- flight
- freedom
- frigidity
- frostiness
- getaway
- going
- hegira
- iciness
- impassiveness
- impassivity
- impeachment
- inaccessibility
- installment
- introversion
- isolation
- isolationism
- layoff
- leaving
- leisure
- liquidation
- modesty
- never-never
- obsolescence
- obsoleteness
- ousting
- overthrow
- parting
- passing
- paying
- payment
- payoff
- prepayment
- privacy
- privatization
- pullback
- pullout
- purge
- quarantine
- quittance
- recedence
- receding
- recess
- recession
- reclusion
- relinquishment
- remittance
- remoteness
- removal
- repose
- repression
- reserve
- resignation
- rest
- restraint
- reticence
- retraction
- retreat
- rustication
- satisfaction
- seclusion
- secrecy
- segregation
- separation
- sequestration
- settlement
- standoffishness
- subduedness
- superannuation
- suppression
- suspension
- ticket
- time
- unapproachability
- uncongeniality
- walkout
- withdrawal
- withdrawnness
The olive grove of Academe,
Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird
Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.
