RETAINERS
Noun
retainers
plural of retainer
Anagrams
• Eretrians, Eritreans, Renterias, rain trees, rain-trees, raintrees, ternaries
Source: Wiktionary
RETAINER
Re*tain"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, retains.
2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent;
a hanger-on.
3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and
wearing his master's livery. Cowell.
4. (Law) (a) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or
counselor to manage his cause. (b) The act of withholding what one
has in his hands by virtue of some right. (c) A fee paid to engage a
lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being
employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining
fee. Bouvier. Blackstone.
5. The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in
dependence. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition