英漢辭典

1. vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)
   1. 使退休[退職,退役]

2. 2. 使後退[退卻]

3. 3. 撤回

4. 4. [棒球‧板球] 使(擊球員、擊球方)出局

5. 5. 贖回(票據),收回(紙幣)

6. 6. 停止使用,使報廢



7. vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)
   1. 退休,退職

   retire on a pension [under the age clause]

   領退休金退休[因年老退休]

8. 2. 歇業

9. 3. 隱退,隱居,退隱

   retire from the world

   出家,做和尚.

10. 4. 退出競選

11. 5. 退去,離開,退卻

12. 6. [板球] 出局

13. 7. 從飯廳退到客廳

14. 8. 就寢,去睡覺

15. 9. (浪等)向後退,(海岸線等)遠去



16. n. (名詞 noun)
    1. 隱退,隱居

17. 2. 退兵號

    sound the retire

    吹退兵號.

柯林斯英英辭典

vb

1. [mainly intr] [also tr] to give up or to cause (a person) to give up his work, a post, etc, esp on reaching pensionable age (in Britain and Australia usually 65 for men, 60 for women)

2. to go away, as into seclusion, for recuperation, etc

3. to go to bed

4. to recede or disappear

the sun retired behind the clouds

5. to withdraw from a sporting contest, esp because of injury

6. [also tr] to pull back (troops, etc) from battle or an exposed position or (of troops, etc) to fall back

vt. (transitive verb)

1. [tr] to remove (bills, bonds, shares, etc) from circulation by taking them up and paying for them

2. to remove (money) from circulation

3. [Etymology] C16: from French retirer, from Old French re- + tirer to pull, draw