retirement
/rɪˈtɑɪər·mənt/ n [C/U]Definition
› the point at which someone stops working, esp. because of having reached a particular age or because of ill health, or the period in someone’s life after the person has stopped working: [C] He announced his retirement in September.
(Definition of retirement n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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