retirement

  1. Noun.  An act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
  2. Noun.  (obsolete) : A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.

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