In the law of negotiable instruments: To take up (a bill or note) from a prior transferee and thereafter hold (it) with all remedies intact: said of an indorser.
To retire (a bill or note) by taking (it) up at maturity, with all remedies on it extinguished: said of an acceptor.
To draw back; take or lead back; cause to move backward or retreat.
To take away; withdraw: remove.
To lead apart from others; bring into retirement; remove as from a company or a frequented place into seclusion: generally with a reflexive pronoun.
To withdraw; separate; abstract.
Specifically, to remove from active service; place on the retired list, as of the army or navy.
To recover; redeem; regain by the payment of a sum of money; hence, specifically, to withdraw from circulation by taking up and paying: as, to retire the bonds of a railway company; to retire a bill.
To draw back; go back; return.
To draw back; fall back; retreat, as from battle or danger.
To withdraw; go away or apart; depart; especially, to betake one's self, as from a company or a frequented place, into privacy; go into retirement or seclusion; in the army or navy, to go voluntarily on the retired list.
To withdraw from business or active life.
Specifically, to go to bed.
To slope back; recede; retreat.
Synonyms and To depart, recede. See retreat.
noun.
The act of retiring; withdrawal.
noun.
Retreat, especially in war.
noun.
Retirement; withdrawal into privacy or seclusion; hence, a state of retirement.
noun.
A place of retirement or withdrawal.
noun.
Repair; resort.