Retain(v. i.) To belong; to pertain.
Retain(v. i.) To keep; to continue; to remain.
Retain(v. t.) To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.
Retain(v. t.) To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
Retain(v. t.) To restrain; to prevent.
Retainable(a.) Capable of being retained.
Retainal(n.) The act of retaining; retention.
Retained(imp. & p. p.) of Retain
Retainer(n.) One who, or that which, retains.
Retainer(n.) One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.
Retainer(n.) Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
Retainer(n.) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
Retainer(n.) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
Retainer(n.) 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.
Retainer(n.) The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.
Retaining(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retain
Retainment(n.) The act of retaining; retention.
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