retiree
noun
re·tir·ee
ri-ˌtī-ˈrē 
: a person who has retired from a working or professional career
Examples of retiree in a Sentence
a group of elderly retirees
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Two laws passed in 2025, the Big Beautiful Bill and the Social Security Fairness Act, affect the amount retirees will owe the Internal Revenue Service.
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Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
Volunteers like retiree Lonna Bell say the work is rewarding in its own way.
—Nicole Nielsen, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
Thousands of Americans, many of them retirees on limited budgets, lost more than a quarter of a billion dollars this year to scams that fooled them into using crypto ATMs – machines that turn cash into hard-to-recover cryptocurrency.
—Curt Devine, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
Sandhu is one of five retirees who courts have deemed crossed retirement employment rules, which prohibit receiving pension benefits from CalPERS while working for another government entity that feeds into the pension system.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 17 Dec. 2025
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Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
Volunteers like retiree Lonna Bell say the work is rewarding in its own way.
—Nicole Nielsen, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
Thousands of Americans, many of them retirees on limited budgets, lost more than a quarter of a billion dollars this year to scams that fooled them into using crypto ATMs – machines that turn cash into hard-to-recover cryptocurrency.
—Curt Devine, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
Sandhu is one of five retirees who courts have deemed crossed retirement employment rules, which prohibit receiving pension benefits from CalPERS while working for another government entity that feeds into the pension system.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 17 Dec. 2025
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“Retiree.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retiree. Accessed 23 Dec. 2025.
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retiree
noun
re·tir·ee
ri-ˌtī-ˈrē
: a person who has retired from a job or profession
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