retires
- 1Third-person singular simple present of retire.
The general retires from active service after four decades in uniform.
The airline retires its oldest aircraft once they exceed a set number of flight hours.
Note
One spelling carries both halves of the verb's grammar. With no object, it reports someone leaving work or sport: she retires next spring, the striker retires at thirty. With an object, it becomes causative: a firm retires a product line, a bank retires notes from circulation, the service retires an officer to the retired list. It can also take a reflexive object, as in he retires himself from company, meaning he withdraws.
retires is a form of retire
retire, verb: To permanently stop working, typically because of old age or illness. Full entry
- Spelling
- retire → retires: add -s
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