Talk:retire early

RFD discussion: November 2020–March 2021
SOP. Darren X. Thorsson (talk) 00:40, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Probably held by WT:THUB; all such terms (this in English and translations if they are of multiple words) have idiomatic character, because this is a particular concept people talk about – and you would like to know how this is said in other languages. Fay Freak (talk) 01:07, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Looking at retire, every sense that is intransitive could have "early" added to it, plus at least one that's listed as transitive ("I need to retire my car. You're going to retire early?"). I'd use "retire early" to refer to to going to bed before one would normally do so. I don't see it as particularly idiomatic; it's just to retire + early.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:45, 22 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I don't really see the value in this unless it is phrasebook-worthy. Certainly it's SoP because you're just doing something early i.e. before the time prescribed. Equinox ◑ 07:13, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, clearly SOP as it's just two senses of retire + early. PseudoSkull (talk) 16:50, 22 November 2020 (UTC)


 * How do we feel about ' and '? —Mahāgaja · talk 17:14, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per WT:THUB. I don't like the policy, but I have to accept its legitimacy. Imetsia (talk) 17:43, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. It looks like many of the translations are off and don't support THUB. Imetsia (talk) 15:55, 23 November 2020 (UTC)


 * If is kept because it is a medical entity, then  has to be kept because it is a legal entity. Fay Freak (talk) 02:19, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I would certainly probably keep . I'm less convinced about (abstain), and much less convinced about  (delete). Also, the French translations  are incorrect: both are transitive verbs, and they don't translate the intransitive senses given in the entry. The correct translations  don't support THUB. (Presumably, the same goes for other Romance languages.) PUC – 13:26, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * (, what about Italian?) PUC – 13:27, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The Italian is also transitive, not to mention very rare (some dictionaries didn't even include it, others marked it as rare). Imetsia (talk) 15:55, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * In fairness, the definition originally given in the entry was transitive, "retire someone [early]", which I changed because AFAICT the main use is in reference to people who retire early (intransitive), not to companies retiring their workers early (transitive), but perhaps I should've simply added the intransitive sense while leaving the transitive sense. Would the (to my ear weirder) transitive sense meet THUB? Weird... - -sche (discuss) 02:49, 24 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment. I am finding it hard to see why we would treat early retirement any differently from retire early. Mihia (talk) 22:56, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per PUC. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:16, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ultimateria (talk) 18:33, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as per arguments above. And the participles are all wrong. Facts707 (talk) 17:52, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * RFD-deleted. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 08:35, 7 March 2021 (UTC)