aposentadoria

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From aposento (“home”). Folk etymology suggests that the term's meaning shifted with when Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Portugal and the Portuguese nobles fled to Brazil, claiming for themselves a right to expel someone from their house and move in, subject only to the requirement that they pay the expellee rent. === Pronunciation === === Noun === aposentadoria f (plural aposentadorias) retirement (the act of retiring) (uncountable, Brazil) retirement (the state of being retired) Synonyms: reforma, aposentação (Brazil) pension paid to retirees Synonyms: reforma, aposentação ==== Related terms ==== aposentar, aposentado === Further reading === “aposentadoria”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “aposentadoria”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026