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micro-retirement

micro-retirement is the alternative form of microretirement.

Meaning of microretirement

Noun

microretirement (countable and uncountable, plural microretirements)

  1. (neologism) An extended break from employment.
    • Though a few workers have committed to the microretirement lifestyle, more and more young people say they are open to the idea of taking extended breaks from work to volunteer or focus on "personal projects," WSJ noted, citing data from Handshake, a job database for college students.2024 September 7, Gabriel Hays, “Some young people plan ‘microretirements,’ borrow against goals of their future selves: Report”, in Fox Business, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2024
    Synonyms:
    miniretirement

Forms of micro-retirement

pluralmicro-retirements

Questions about micro-retirement

What is micro-retirement the alternative form of?
Micro-retirement is the alternative form of microretirement.

Words near micro-retirement in the dictionary

  1. micro-region
  2. micro-regions
  3. micro-retailing
  4. micro-retiree
  5. micro-retirees
  6. micro-retirement
  7. micro-retirements
  8. micro-scale
  9. micro-scales
  10. micro-school
  11. micro-schools

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Adapted from Wiktionary: micro-retirement (page history and authors); microretirement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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