退職
解説 Definition
retirements は retirement（退職、引退）の複数形です。複数の人の退職や、退職という出来事がいくつもある場合に使われます。
Retirements are occasions on which two or more people leave their jobs or careers permanently, usually because of age or after long service. The plural can also refer collectively to several such departures within an organization.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 retirement「退職・引退」に、複数を示す -s が付いた形です。語尾は /ts/ と発音します。one retirement に対し、several retirements や three retirements のように、複数の人の退職または複数回の退職事例を数える場面で覚えましょう。
Start with retirement, meaning the event of permanently leaving a job or career, and add the plural -s. The ending is pronounced /ts/ because retirement ends in /t/. Picture a company announcing several retirements or a school reporting three retirements at the end of the year. This plural counts separate retirement events or the departures of several people. Contrast one retirement with many retirements, and connect the whole word family: retire is the action, retirement is one event or state, and retirements refers to more than one.
例文
Several retirements changed the shape of the company.
数人の退職によって会社の体制が変わりました。
The school announced three retirements at the end of the year.
その学校は年度末に3件の退職を発表しました。
Early retirements helped the organization reduce costs without layoffs.
早期退職により、その組織は解雇せずにコストを削減できました。
retirements の類義語・関連語
retirements の語源・成り立ち Etymology
retirements は retirement の複数形で、フランス語 retirer「引き下がらせる」から来た retire に、名詞化の -ment と複数の -s が付いた形です。re-「後ろへ」+ tirer「引く」なので、「仕事や前線から身を引く」がそのまま「退職」になりました。関連語は retire, tirade。
Retirements is the plural of retirement. Retirement combines retire with the noun-forming suffix -ment, followed here by plural -s. Retire entered English through French retirer, historically conveying the idea of drawing back or withdrawing. Its employment sense developed naturally from withdrawing from active work or office. Thus, retirements literally represents multiple instances of withdrawing permanently from working life.
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