Retainer is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETAINER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one that retains
• a thing that holds something in place
• an appliance for keeping a loose tooth, an orthodontic prosthesis, or orthodontically aligned teeth in place.
• a fee paid in advance to someone, especially a barrister, in order to secure their services for use when required
• a reduced rent paid to retain accommodation during a period of non-occupancy.
• a servant, especially one who has worked for a person or family for a long time
• One who, or that which, retains.
• One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.
• Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master\'s livery.
• The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
• The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
• 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.
• The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.
• a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone
• a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
• a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment
• fee to retain someone's services
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• fee to retain someone\'s services

Words related to RETAINER

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Words that contain RETAINER

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How to use RETAINER in a sentence

• Lavington, and the girls, were round the bed of their old retainer.
• The fact that the old retainer of the Weggs had a blind wife to whom he was tenderly devoted made the proposition of his leaving the farm one of intense interest.
• The old servitor was also in a position to know much of the causes leading up to the catastrophe, he having been the confidential retainer of Captain Wegg for many years.
• He is an old retainer of my family, and one of my ambitions is to secure a home for him and Nora in their old age.
• This retainer told his young master that Anne Chute loved him well, and that she deserved a better fortune than to love without return.
• The butler, John Binns, who is an old and faithful retainer to this household, is now suffering from his annual cough.
• An aged retainer carried the awful news of the murder to Wallace in his concealment.
• Tyrrel, unused to contradiction, was provoked beyond bearing at the courage and independent spirit of his retainer.
• All this, therefore, had been provided for by the arrangements previously agreed upon by Lord Rae and his retainer.
• He is not a servant of ours, but a retainer of the former owner.
• At Castle Voig they were received by an aged retainer who was visibly nervous at their arrival.
• Griffen was an old and privileged retainer, but there were limits even for Mrs.
• One ancient retainer was heard to declare, with much pathos, that he feared master had gone insane.
• He has attached himself to this hotel as a sort of retainer, and through all its changes of ownership he has hung on.
• But it is also some time since I came to the conclusion that he was so, and my conversion is not to be attributed to any editorial retainer.
• Its influence and prestige is threatened by a mere retainer.
• Not a retainer could be found willing to take the daughter of Tamiya as wife.
• Among them was Messire Enguerrand de Monstrelet, a native of the County of Boulogne, a retainer of the House of Luxembourg, the author of the Chronicles.
• No less conscious of the resemblance between infant lord and infant retainer, were the mother and the boy himself.
• I should mention that we were served by a grey-haired retainer, almost stone deaf, and as hopelessly cracked as the gong with which he had beaten us to dinner.
• He was moderately wealthy, but a stanch retainer of the house of Iturbi y Moncada, the devoted slave of Chonita.
• A candle of coarse tallow on a black table lighted up the handsome and resigned face of the king and that of his faithful retainer, far less calm.
• But as chosen medical-attendant and, in some sort, retainer of Sir Charles Verity he ranked.
• Doubtless, he had confided the secret of their whereabouts to some trusty friend or retainer, who, perhaps, had died suddenly before he could disclose it to the rightful heir.
• This secret alliance was discovered to Sir James Johnstone by the laird of Cummertrees, one of his own clan, though a retainer to Maxwell.
• No wonder then the retainer entered into the views of the Alderman, with more than a usual relish for the duty.
• Bearcroft, a celebrated advocate, was brought down on a special retainer of three hundred guineas, in a salmon fishery cause.
• At or about this moment, as was fully attested, Cranstoun, a retainer of Gowrie, reported to him and the gentlemen that the king had ridden away.
• At that moment attendants came to inform him that his retainer had been murdered by a boy.
• When Gilbert had composed himself sufficiently to listen, the gallant retainer began to relate all that had occurred at the lordship of Stramen.
• Also John Carr and his young retainer, Yellow Barbee, prolonged their stay.
• That is, instead of filial piety, the relation of parent and child, occupying the first place, loyalty, the relation of lord and retainer, master and servant, became supreme.

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