Something can only get retired if someone else retires it, and typically people voluntarily choose to retire. Yes, is retired is fine. 'retirees' has definitely an american feel to it, and i haven't come.
Because retired can be vpp and adj, so i think. If the write tried to give an indication that the retirement in a past event, why. I'd say i have retired since last summer because the word retire is an intrasitive verb.
I feel 'retired ' has a more favorable sense, like something has become rare and more valuable after no longer being made (e.g. A toy has been retired), while ' discontinued ' is. Hello, i'm working on a translation and the narrator specifies that mrs. I assume that's why it's put was retired when most often retire would be the preferred form.
The phrase .business year ending. is a fixed expression used. If he's already retired, i'd use retired instead of retiring even if you are celebrating his retirement. In he was retired, retired is used as an adjective. However retire is also used in passive as a transitive verb.
He had retired is a conjugated form of the the verb “retire” (third person singular, past perfect). Sunbury never went to bed, she retired to show that she was a refined woman who used a very formal. However, it uses retired as an adjective, whereas in “he has retired ” it’s a past participle in a finite construction in the present perfect.