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quiescenza

quiescence

noun kwee-SHEN-tsah Rare
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Origin: From Latin 'quiescentia', from 'quiescere' (to rest, be quiet).

Also means

retirement (pension status)

Usage Note

Quiescenza has two main uses in Italian: a scientific/technical sense (a dormant or inactive state, as in biology or geology) and a bureaucratic one — in Italian public-sector employment, mettere in quiescenza means to place an employee in retirement (pension status). The latter is the far more common usage in everyday and administrative Italian.

Examples

"Il funzionario è stato messo in quiescenza."

Natural Translation

The official was placed in retirement.

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