cáo hưu
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Definition
- Verb:
- To request retirement, to ask to be pensioned off: "cáo hưu" is an archaic term meaning to formally petition or request permission to retire from official service or duty and receive a pension.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Sau bốn mươi năm phục vụ, ông ấy đã cáo hưu. (After forty years of service, he requested to retire.)
- Vị quan già muốn cáo hưu về quê sống những ngày tháng an nhàn. (The old mandarin wanted to retire to his homeland to live a leisurely life.)
Advanced Usage
- The term "cáo hưu" is considered literary and archaic. It is most commonly found in historical texts, classical literature, or when referring to retirement in pre-modern contexts (e.g., of mandarins, officials). In modern Vietnamese, the phrase "xin nghỉ hưu" or the verb "về hưu" are used.
Variants and Related Words
- Về hưu (verb): to retire. This is the standard modern term.
- Bà tôi đã về hưu được năm năm. (My grandmother retired five years ago.)
- Hưu trí (noun): retirement.
- Chế độ hưu trí (retirement policy)
- Xin nghỉ hưu (verb phrase): to request retirement. The modern equivalent of "cáo hưu".
Synonyms
- Xin nghỉ hưu: to request retirement.
- Về hưu: to retire.
Related Phrases
- Làm đơn xin cáo hưu: to submit a retirement request letter. (Archatic/formal)
- Ông đã làm đơn xin cáo hưu gửi lên triều đình. (He submitted a retirement request letter to the royal court.)
- (cũ) Ask to retire on a pension