honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus'' as in `professor emeritus''; `retired from assigned duties'' need not imply that one is inactive;
discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a pension; "a superannuated civil servant";
not allowed to continue to bat or run; "he was tagged out at second on a close play"; "he fanned out";
(of a ship) withdrawn from active service; "the ship was placed out of service after the war";
