Word.ws English Dictionary

semi-retirement

semi-retirement is the alternative form of semiretirement.

Meaning of semiretirement

Noun

semiretirement (usually uncountable, plural semiretirements)

  1. (usually) A state of partial retirement, working only part-time or occasionally
    • In 1957, tired of traveling on the concert circuit and beginning to experience insecurity about memorization, Reisenberg went into semiretirement.2009 January 5, Anthony Tommasini, “Reopening a Pianist's Treasury of Chopin”, in New York Times

Forms of semi-retirement

pluralsemi-retirements

Questions about semi-retirement

What is semi-retirement the alternative form of?
Semi-retirement is the alternative form of semiretirement.

Words near semi-retirement in the dictionary

  1. semi-quoting
  2. semi-random
  3. semi-reflexive
  4. semi-regular
  5. semi-responsible
  6. semi-retirement
  7. semi-retirements
  8. semi-rigid
  9. semi-riparian
  10. semi-rural
  11. Semi-Saxon

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: semi-retirement (page history and authors); semiretirement (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “semi-retirement.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/semi-retirement. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.