retirement

Other forms of retirement

plural

retirements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about retirement

What does retirement mean?

retirement means "the state of being retired from one's business or occupation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in retirement?

retirement has 4 syllables: re-ti-re-ment. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ɹiˈtaɪɚmənt/.

What is another word for retirement?

Close synonyms include retreat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is retirement a common word?

retirement is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.