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retiracy

retiracy noun: retirement.

Noun

retiracy (usually uncountable, plural retiracies)

  1. (US, dated, humorous, usually) retirement
    • The patriot commanders in the middle of January went into retiracy, having with much judgment commended the forces under them to their own discretion1845, Samuel Maunder, John Inman, The Treasury of History
    • what one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy1852, C. A. Bristed, The upper ten thousand

Forms of retiracy

pluralretiracies

Questions about retiracy

What does retiracy mean?
Retiracy means retirement.
What part of speech is retiracy?
Retiracy is a noun.
What is the plural of retiracy?
The plural of retiracy is retiracies.

Words near retiracy in the dictionary

  1. retipping
  2. retips
  3. retir'd
  4. retirable
  5. retiracies
  6. retiracy
  7. retirade
  8. retirades
  9. retiral
  10. retirals
  11. retirant

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