Usually means: Ceasing work after years served.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word retiring:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. retiring: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. retiring: Merriam-Webster
  3. retiring: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. retiring: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. retiring: Collins English Dictionary
  6. retiring: Vocabulary.com
  7. Retiring, retiring: Wordnik
  8. retiring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. retiring: Wiktionary
  10. retiring: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. retiring: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. retiring: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. retiring: Dictionary.com
  14. retiring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Retiring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. retiring: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. retiring: Rhymezone
  18. Retiring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. retiring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. retiring: FreeDictionary.org
  21. retiring: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. retiring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. retiring: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. retiring: Legal dictionary
  3. retiring: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retiring: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retiring: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Retiring: Sports Definitions

(Note: See retire as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.
noun:  retirement

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