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"etymology_text": "From Middle French retirer (“draw back”), from prefix re- (“back”), + verb tirer (“draw, pull”), from Old French tirer, tirier (“to draw out, arrange, adorn”), from tire, tiere (“row, rank, order, dress”) of Germanic origin, akin to Old English and Old Saxon Old Saxon tīr (“fame, glory, ornament”), Old English tīer (“rank, row”), Old High German ziari, zēri (“ornament”), German German Zier (“ornament, adornment”), zieren (“to adorn”). More at tier.",
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"text": "Having made a large fortune, he retired.",
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"text": "He wants to retire at 55.",
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"text": "She decided to retire from her banking job due to stress.",
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"ref": "2022 September 21, Chris Green tells Nick Brodrick, “It's absolutely my favourite train”, in RAIL, number 966, page 37",
"text": "Green will never forget \"that was the day I retired - the absolute crowning event of my life and I was very proud of that.",
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"word": "xubilar"
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"word": "пенсионирам се"
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"word": "退休"
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"word": "引退"
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"word": "退下"
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"word": "se retirer"
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "prendre sa retraite"
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "xubilar"
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "in Pension gehen"
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"word": "in Rente gehen"
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"word": "in den Ruhestand gehen"
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"roman": "syntaxiodotoúmai",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "συνταξιοδοτούμαι"
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"word": "nyugdíjba megy"
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "setjast í helgan stein"
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "téigh ar scor"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "ritirarsi"
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"alt": "たいしょくする",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "taishoku suru",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "退職する"
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"word": "引退する"
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"code": "km",
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"roman": "cool ni’voat",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "ចូលនិវត្តន៍"
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"roman": "rəɨtraet",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "រ៉ឺត្រែត"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "toejik-hada",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "퇴직하다"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "abire"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "tāoki"
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"code": "nv",
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"word": "naanish yoołbįįh"
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "pensjonere"
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "przejść na emeryturę"
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"_dis1": "49 3 2 5 13 4 8 7 1 1 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "aposentar-se"
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"_dis1": "49 3 2 5 13 4 8 7 1 1 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "reformar-se"
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"_dis1": "49 3 2 5 13 4 8 7 1 1 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vyxodítʹ na pénsiju",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "выходи́ть на пе́нсию"
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"roman": "vyxodítʹ v otstávku",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "выходи́ть в отста́вку"
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"code": "sk",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
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"word": "odísť do dôchodku"
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"_dis1": "49 3 2 5 13 4 8 7 1 1 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "jubilar"
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "magretiro"
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"roman": "gà-sǐian",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "เกษียณ"
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "เกษียณอายุ"
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"_dis1": "49 3 2 5 13 4 8 7 1 1 6",
"code": "th",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "รีไทร์"
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"_dis1": "49 3 2 5 13 4 8 7 1 1 6",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "về hưu"
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"_dis1": "49 3 2 5 13 4 8 7 1 1 6",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "thôi việc"
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"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "prinde si pinsion"
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "ymddeol"
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"ref": "1592, John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul",
"text": "As when the sun is present all the year, / And never doth retire his golden ray.",
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"To withdraw; to take away."
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"text": "The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company.",
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"text": "When a hurricane becomes so deadly or destructive that future use would be insensitive, officials may retire the name of the hurricane.",
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{
"ref": "2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63",
"text": "Only now, due to the COVID-19-associated drop in traffic, are they being retired with 12 of the 30 trains moved to Landore (Swansea) for warm storage.",
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"text": "The central bank retired those notes five years ago.",
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"text": "The board retired the old major.",
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"ref": "1988 November 27, “How Richard Gere Learned To Reach Out”, in Parade (The Spokesman-Review), page 10, column 3",
"text": "How had it felt, at 28, to be the hottest young actor in town? He [Richard Gere] grinned. “It was great having the attention,” he said. “I thought: ‘This is it! I’ve done it! I’m going to retire my father. I’m putting money away for college for my sisters,’ the whole thing. It’s incredibly euphorious. All of a sudden the rehearsal period of your life is over, and your future has arrived. It’s liberating.”",
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"text": "Having made a large fortune, he retired.",
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"text": "He wants to retire at 55.",
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"text": "She decided to retire from her banking job due to stress.",
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"ref": "2022 September 21, Chris Green tells Nick Brodrick, “It's absolutely my favourite train”, in RAIL, number 966, page 37",
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"ref": "1592, John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul",
"text": "As when the sun is present all the year, / And never doth retire his golden ray.",
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"text": "The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company.",
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"text": "When a hurricane becomes so deadly or destructive that future use would be insensitive, officials may retire the name of the hurricane.",
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{
"ref": "2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63",
"text": "Only now, due to the COVID-19-associated drop in traffic, are they being retired with 12 of the 30 trains moved to Landore (Swansea) for warm storage.",
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"text": "The central bank retired those notes five years ago.",
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"text": "The board retired the old major.",
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"ref": "1988 November 27, “How Richard Gere Learned To Reach Out”, in Parade (The Spokesman-Review), page 10, column 3",
"text": "How had it felt, at 28, to be the hottest young actor in town? He [Richard Gere] grinned. “It was great having the attention,” he said. “I thought: ‘This is it! I’ve done it! I’m going to retire my father. I’m putting money away for college for my sisters,’ the whole thing. It’s incredibly euphorious. All of a sudden the rehearsal period of your life is over, and your future has arrived. It’s liberating.”",
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},
{
"ref": "2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired, →ISSN",
"text": "By the time I first spoke to Magana in late 2022, 25/7 Media’s success had given him some measure of financial security. “The truth is that I just retired my parents,” he told me two days after Christmas.",
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"text": "Jones retired in favour of Smith.",
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"text": "I will retire to the study.",
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"text": "to retire from the public eye",
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"text": "to retire from battle",
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"text": "Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves.",
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"text": "I will retire for the night.",
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"ref": "1944 November and December, “\"Duplex Roomette\" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324",
"text": "In the daytime the beds are made up but completely out of sight, giving the passenger a comfortable little private room; as the time for retiring comes, after preparing for rest in the same spacious conditions, he is able, practically at a touch, to pull the bed into position ready for use.",
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"To go to bed."
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"(intransitive) To go to bed."
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"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "aftree"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "taqāʕada",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "تَقَاعَدَ"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "xubilar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pensioniram se",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "пенсионирам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "jubilar"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "teoi³ jau¹",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "退休"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tuìxiū",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "退休"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǐntuì",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "引退"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tuìxià",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "退下"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "jít do důchodu"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odejít do důchodu"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "gå på pension"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "met pensioen gaan"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "retiriĝi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "jäädä eläkkeelle"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "siirtyä eläkkeelle"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "eläköityä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "se retirer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "prendre sa retraite"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "xubilar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "in Pension gehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "in Rente gehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "in den Ruhestand gehen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "syntaxiodotoúmai",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "συνταξιοδοτούμαι"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "nyugdíjba megy"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "setjast í helgan stein"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "téigh ar scor"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "ritirarsi"
},
{
"alt": "たいしょくする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "taishoku suru",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "退職する"
},
{
"alt": "いんたいする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "intai suru",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "引退する"
},
{
"code": "kea",
"lang": "Kabuverdianu",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "apuzenta"
},
{
"code": "kea",
"lang": "Kabuverdianu",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "apuzentá"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "cool ni’voat",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "ចូលនិវត្តន៍"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "rəɨtraet",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "រ៉ឺត្រែត"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "toejik-hada",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "퇴직하다"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
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"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "naanish yoołbįįh"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "pensjonere"
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "pensjonere"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "przejść na emeryturę"
},
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "aposentar-se"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "reformar-se"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vyxodítʹ na pénsiju",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "выходи́ть на пе́нсию"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vyxodítʹ v otstávku",
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"word": "выходи́ть в отста́вку"
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
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"code": "th",
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"roman": "gà-sǐian",
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"code": "th",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "เกษียณอายุ"
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"code": "th",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "รีไทร์"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "về hưu"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "thôi việc"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "prinde si pinsion"
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"code": "cy",
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"sense": "to stop working on permanent basis",
"word": "ymddeol"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to withdraw; to take away",
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"code": "fi",
"english": "withdraw tr.",
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"sense": "to withdraw; to take away",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
"english": "product",
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"sense": "to withdraw from circulation, or from the market",
"word": "vetää takaisin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "banknote",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to withdraw from circulation, or from the market",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pensioniram",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to cause to retire, to deem as no longer qualified for active service",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to cause to retire, to deem as no longer qualified for active service",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "cricket: to voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "cricket: to voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "baseball: to make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out",
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"code": "bg",
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"sense": "to go back or return",
"word": "оттеглям се"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to go back or return",
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"code": "ga",
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"word": "téigh ar gcúl"
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"sense": "to go back or return",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "ca",
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"code": "ca",
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"code": "eo",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "ga",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "fi",
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