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Definition of Retired person

1. Noun. Someone who has retired from active working.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retired Person

Literary usage of Retired person

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1841)
"The man felt our spirits, and therefore loved us, and in the fresh sense of that love, wrote a letter by us to a retired person at the Hague, like himself: ..."

2. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1841)
"... and unto us the friends thereof; but also informed us of a retired person of great quality, that liveth about two hours back again towards Amsterdam, ..."

3. Journal of His Travels in Holland and Germany, in 1677, in the Service of by William Penn (1835)
"The man felt our spirits, and therefore loved us, and in the fresh sense of that love, wrote a letter by us to a retired person at the Hague, like himself: ..."

4. Why the Balanced Budget Amendment Is Good for Americans: Hearing Before the edited by John R. Kasich (1998)
"We now have about three people working for every retired person. By the year 2030, there will be only about two people working for each retired person, ..."

5. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"(re-kline') ». n. To rest ; to repose ; to lean. RECLUSE, (re-kluse') n. ». One shut up ; a retired person. RECLUSE, (re-kluse') o. Shut up ; retired. ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"... And to sum up " the strange eventful history" of this modest, and obscure, and retired person, we must mention, that in his youth he held forth in a ..."

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