Retraites

Part of speech: noun, verb

Definitions

1. Pensions provided regularly to individuals after retirement from active employment; the act or process of withdrawing or retreating from a position or place; the state of being retired from one's career or profession
2. Regular payments made to formerly employed individuals during their non-working years; the withdrawal movement from a previously held position or area; the condition of having ceased full-time work due to age or eligibility
3. Financial allowances granted post-employment as a source of income; the retreat or pulling back from a location or engagement; the phase of life characterized by cessation of professional duties and lifestyle change

Etymology: "Retraites" is the plural of "retraite", the French noun that gave English its "retreat" and, in its modern French sense, its word for a pension. The word is less a single story than a family of meanings, all built on the idea of pulling back or going away. Because the form here is the plural, its sense splits into the pensions that people receive after leaving work, a usage that is especially common in French-speaking contexts, and the older military and general sense of withdrawing from a position or place. The plural therefore points to the many payments or periods of withdrawal rather than a single act of retreat.

Synonyms: retreats, withdrawals, fallbacks, recessions, retirings

Antonyms: advances, attacks, assaults, charges, offensives