Definition of Retiring

Retiring

of Retire

Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.

Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement.

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Retiring Quotations

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
Milton Berle

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
James Herriot

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
Mos Def

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Paul Harvey

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
Anthony Hopkins

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Lord Chesterfield

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
Gabriela Sabatini

When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.
Johnny Weissmuller

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.
Julia Roberts

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.
Anjelica Huston

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
Billy Joel

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
Helena Bonham Carter

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.
Chris Chocola

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
Frederik Pohl

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
Tanya Tucker

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Jean Paul

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.
Regis Philbin

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.
Mike Wallace

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
Cathy McMorris

I'm not retiring.
Mel Tillis

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
Graeme Le Saux

Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.
Jim Bunning

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
Gary Gygax

I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.
Kenny Cunningham

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.
Mary Wortley

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Will Harvey

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Retiring Translations

retiring in French is retirant

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