引退|いんたいintai[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, intransitive verbretirement
   彼かれは商売しょうばいをたたんで引退いんたいした。↗

   He sold his business and retired.

• SynonymリタイアNeutralLoanword. Covers retirement, and also dropping out partway through a race or match, as in 「レースをリタイアする」.
• Synonym隠居いんきょNeutralRetiring to a quiet, leisurely life after leaving work, or, in former times, surrendering the family headship; carries a nuance of living at ease.
• Related退職たいしょくNeutralQuitting or retiring from a job; the object is the post one holds, as in 「定年退職」. 「引退」 usually means stepping back from the front line of activity.
• RelatedどくCasualColloquial. Read 「どく」, it mostly means stepping aside or making way, as in 「そこを退いて」; the sense of quitting a job is usually read 「しりぞく」.
• Related退任たいにんWrittenWritten/formal prose. Means stepping down from a post one has held, as in 「社長を退任する」, with the focus on the term of office.
• Antonym現役げんえきNeutralAntonym: still active on the front line, as in 「現役選手」 — the opposite of someone who has retired from activity.
• Antonym復帰ふっきNeutralAntonym: returning to one's former post or state, as in 「現役復帰」 — the reverse direction from 「引退」.

Use 「引退」 for athletes, entertainers and the like leaving the front line of activity. For quitting a job say 「退職」, for stepping down from a post 「退任」, for a quiet retired life 「隠居」, and for coming back 「復帰」.

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1. 官職かんしょくなどの地位ちいや現在げんざいやっている職業しょくぎょう、活動かつどうなどから退しりぞくこと。