adj.
1.no longer active in your work or profession
2.honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'
3.not allowed to continue to bat or run
4.(of a ship) withdrawn from active service
5.discharged as too old for use or work
Idiom of the Day
read (someone) his or her rights
to make or read the required statement of legal rights to a person who has been arrested
The police officer read the bank robber his rights when he was arrested.