retirement

retraite

Arrêt définitif du travail ou d’une carrière, généralement après avoir atteint un certain âge.

En anglais simple : Leaving your job or career permanently, usually because you have reached a certain age.

• His retirement is next month.
• She took early retirement at fifty.
• Are you saving enough for retirement?

Comment l'utiliser : retirement from something (She announced her retirement from teaching.)

Expressions courantes : early retirement, retirement age, announce retirement

retraite, isolement

Vie calme, à l’écart des autres et des activités publiques.

En anglais simple : A quiet life away from other people and public activity.

• She preferred the peace of retirement.
• He lived in retirement in a remote cottage.
• They left public life for quiet retirement in the country.

Comment l'utiliser : in retirement (The former ruler lived in retirement far from the capital.)

Synonymes : seclusion, withdrawal

Expressions courantes : live in retirement, quiet retirement, peaceful retirement