What's the difference between regrade and retire?

Regrade


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To retire; to go back.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The subjects then used one of three treatment regimens, were retested for accumulated plaque and regraded.
  • (2) In Wales, the education minister, Leighton Andrews, ordered the WJEC exam board to regrade Welsh students' English papers.
  • (3) After 30 minutes, a second injection of placebo or naloxone was given, and the patient was regraded a third time.
  • (4) Challenged on whether he or anyone else should do anything to restore or change the grades achieved by pupils in England in June, Gove said: "If we were to regrade, or firstly if I were to instruct Ofqual or exam boards to regrade, I would destroy the independence of the regulator.
  • (5) Michael Gove has condemned the "irresponsible and mistaken" decision of the Welsh education minister, Leighton Andrews, to intervene in the disputed GCSEs grades by ordering a regrading exercise.
  • (6) Both the location and the dimensions of the wound as well as the breaking strength of the injured muscles remained inside such narrow limits that the trauma can be regraded as constant.
  • (7) Areas identified by others as area 3a should probably be regraded as parts of area 3b.
  • (8) The regulator insisted it would be inappropriate for either of the sets of exams to be regraded.
  • (9) Five minutes later, the same observer regraded the patient.
  • (10) The documents set out their case for a regrading of GCSE English papers taken by pupils this summer.
  • (11) Two thousand 300 students who took exams set by the Welsh exam board WJEC in Wales have already been regraded on the orders of the Welsh government, which regulates exams set there.
  • (12) There has been, as Guy Standing remarks in The Precariat , an orgy of regrading and redefining jobs as less skilled so that they qualify for lower wages; there has also been a growing confidence that employers do not need to pay higher wages in every annual wage round.
  • (13) The alliance is demanding Ofqual , the exam regulator in England, orders a regrade or face moves to force a judicial review in the high court.
  • (14) The women accepted a pay increase, still less than the men, but the regrading issue was not resolved until after another strike years later, in 1984, when they were finally classified as skilled workers.
  • (15) All cases were regraded according to a classification of Isaacson et al into high grade and low grade B-cell mucosa associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma.
  • (16) There was no difference between SLE and progressive polyarthritis as regrads the cold precipitation of rheumatoid factors.
  • (17) The common misconception of Norrie's disease being regraded as microphthalmia or hereditary corneal dystrophy instead of phthisis is noted.
  • (18) All lesions were regraded blind and twice by two pathologists.
  • (19) If a restructuring is essential, neither they nor I can see any reason why Marie and her colleagues shouldn’t have their jobs regraded and their pay preserved.
  • (20) It is being brought by an alliance of pupils, schools, councils and professional bodies, who want the students regraded after the boundary for a grade C in GCSE English was raised between January and June.

Retire


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
  • (v. t.) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
  • (v. t.) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.
  • (v. i.) To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.
  • (v. i.) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
  • (v. i.) To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
  • (v. i.) To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
  • (v. i.) To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
  • (n.) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
  • (n.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
  • (2) He was very touched that President Nicolas Sarkozy came out to the airport to meet us, even after Madiba retired.
  • (3) The authors studied 84 randomly selected participants who live in retirement communities to discover factors leading to successful completion of a wellness enhancing program.
  • (4) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
  • (5) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
  • (6) He continued: "I don't think there could be a better move for me: to retire from one of the world's best football clubs at the end of the season and then join one of the world's best broadcasters.
  • (7) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
  • (8) Nearly half do not plan to retire from medical work.
  • (9) The statutory age of retirement for clergy is 70, although vicars’ terms can be extended by his or her bishop.
  • (10) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
  • (11) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
  • (12) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (13) Paddy Crerand was interviewed on Irish radio station Newstalk this morning and was in complete denial that Ferguson was about to retire.
  • (14) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
  • (15) The analysis of four surveys on elder people shows that health, income, social integration, knowledge about aging, plans for retirement, good ecological conditions, life satisfaction, and a low age seem to be general resources.
  • (16) The study population included 59 active workers (81 percent participation in this group) and 29 workers who were retired or inactive due to illness (69% participation).
  • (17) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
  • (18) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
  • (19) downward occupational and downward social drift, premature retirement and achievement of the expected social development.
  • (20) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.