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retiring

 adjective
     
re‧tir‧ing
1 someone who is retiring does not want to be with other people, especially people they do not know [= shy]:
As a child, Elizabeth was very shy and retiring.
2

the retiring president/manager/director etc

BE a president etc who is soon going to leave their job
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