Dictionaries define retire as “to leave your job or stop working because of old age.”
Can I rephrase it like below by saying “leaving a workplace forever”?
People leave their premises permanently when they are old.
Answer
There are three problems with using leave their premises.
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Premises are properties of the business, so only businessowners leave their premises when they retire.
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Premises includes all the contiguous owned locations, interior and exterior, most of which will be beyond the workplace of a particular individual.
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Today more than ever before it is quite possible to be employed by a firm without ever setting foot on its premises.
When you retire what you are leaving is not a place but a role and an activity.
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