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



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