Synonym: bashful, distant, modest, reserved, restrained, shy, timid. Similar words: tiring, retire, retired, retirement, firing, stirring, aspiring, admiring. Meaning: [rɪ'tɪərɪŋ] 
adj. 1. moving toward a position farther from the front 2. not arrogant or presuming 3. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office 4. reluctant to draw attention to yourself.
adj. 1. moving toward a position farther from the front 2. not arrogant or presuming 3. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office 4. reluctant to draw attention to yourself. 
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121. Since retiring Martha has been doing voluntary work for the Red Cross.
122. Attempts to coerce people into retiring must be resisted; rights to retraining must also be secured.
123. Since retiring, he had a brief fling coaching the Lakers at the end of the 1993-94 season.
124. They competed for the seat left vacant by retiring Sen.
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125. Steward had announced he was retiring at the end of that season but his retirement happened earlier than anticipated.
126. After retiring from teaching, Sister kept working as a cattle rancher and writing books.
127. Then 30 minutes back home again and about another four hours sitting around the house before retiring to bed.
128. Retiring Abroad, published by the Financial Times is a useful guide to the making the break.
129. He is emphatically a retiring and unassuming man.
130. Timothy , of course, and done well by retiring.
131. Dorothy was joking when she said she was retiring.
132. He is a naturally shy and retiring man.
133. He is watching for an opportunity of retiring quietly.
134. He is retiring from the triad and money-lending business.
135. The retiring miner pneumatic drill over to his successor.
136. This retiring attitude enchanced his prestige.
137. To re-elect retiring directors and to fix their remuneration.
138. Although he is retiring as president, Fidel Castro remains first secretary of the Communist Party.
139. Upon retiring, he had had anunprecedented dream of great Cyclopean cities of Titan blocks andsky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister withlatent horror.
140. LONDON (Reuters) - As soothsayers and strategists gaze into 2010, one statistic on the retiring baby-boom generation makes anxious reading for stock market bulls.
141. Fixed rare instance of rejected call-up player retiring and being described as "left out" of international squad.
142. Lee Kuan - yew contemplates retiring with a hand on the helm.
143. Conclusion: This paper describes the procedure about how to handle the retiring of a cobalt-60 machine and estimate personal dose fully and accurately.
144. The US welfare state is overburdened, now the baby boom generation is retiring.
145. And in the future, even more money will have to be raised, because of governments' lavish promises of pensions and health care for the retiring baby-boom generation.
146. After retiring from baseball following the 1956 season, he enlisted in the civil rights struggle, working on behalf of the N.A.A.C.P. and with Dr. King.
147. I am completing the status change form to establish retired membership status with CFA Institute. Will my local society membership automatically be cancelled since I am retiring?
148. The player trained on his own yesterday before retiring early with a stomach upset.
149. The baby-boom generation has entered its 50s and over the next few years will be retiring in large numbers.
150. The lonely old lady filled up the time between supper and retiring with solitaire.
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