Retainer

Definitions: Retainer

Retainer

Noun

1. A fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone.

2. A person working in the service of another (especially in the household).

3. A dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "retainer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Law

Mechanical Engineering

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Synonyms: Retainer

Servant

Noun: subject, liegeman; servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache; official.

Crosswords: Retainer

Books

• A Monster in My Mouth: My Retainer (reference)

• Administration bonds, personal representatives' rights of retainer and preference, and related matters (reference)

• Retainer from the Lord (reference)

• The True and Authentic History of Jenny Dorset: Consisting of a Narrative by a Retainer, Mr. Henry Hawthorne, Along With the History of Two Household (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Eerie, Indiana - Forever Ware / The Retainer / ATM with a Heart of Gold (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel Famous astronomer - worked with Coast Survey on retainer Primarily involved with development of telegraphic determination of longitude.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Ash Fork, Arizona. A brakeman closing the retainer on a car in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard.Credit: Library of Congress.

Summit, California. The brakeman opening the retainer valve on a car on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Barstow and San Bernardino, California. From here to San Bernardino is one long downgrade of more than 2700 feet.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, nor is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

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Business

In many cases, the agency requests a retainer to begin providing services. (references)

This retainer can be a percentage of the quotation or a monthly retainer fee, based on the size and length of the contract. (references)

Economic History

Canada

There are many companies in Canada that can offer that service as an agent or representative, or on a retainer basis. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "retainer": retainer fee ♦ retainer lock. Additional references.

Ending with "retainer": key-retainer.

Albanian

shërbyes (boy, help, minister, myrmidon, page, servant, service, servitor), mbajtëse (abutment, brace, bracket, cleat, hold, holder, holdfast, hook, keeper, Mount, pendant, rack, stand, standard, support, supporter, tenter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كفالة (bail, bond, custody, guarantee, guaranty, patronage, security, sponsorship, surety, warranty), ‏مقدم أتعاب المحامي, ‏عربون (earnest), ‏خادم (attendant, boy, factotum, flunkey, flunky, footman, knave, lackey, livery, man, manservant, menial, page, servant, valet, vassal), ‏الكفيل (guarantee, guarantor, voucher). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слуга (follower, footman, gossoon, knave, man, manservant, menial, myrmidon, peon, servant, servitor, valet), фиксатор (fixative, mordant), застопоряващо устройство, придворен (courtier), договор с адвокат. (various references)

Chinese 

保留 (KEEP, remain, Remained, reservation, retain, retained, retaining, retention). (various references)

Czech

smlouva (accord, bargain, bond, compact, contract, covenant, pact, treaty), sluha (Famulus, manservant, menial, page, servant, servitor, valet), plná moc (power, power of attorney, proxy, warrant), penìžitá záloha. (various references)

Danish

stopper (stopper), kugleskål (brake piston cup), indsatsholderplade (cavity retainer plate). (various references)

Dutch

stootblok (buffer, recoil), matrijsbevestigingsplaat (cavity retainer plate), houder (holder, socket), cup van de hoofdcilinder (brake piston cup), borgring (lock, lock washer), blokkeerschaal (cup retainer), bevestigingsring (mounting ring). (various references)

Farsi 

ملازم (Adjunct, Attendant, Concomitant, Valet), مستخدم (Employee, Man), گیره (Bend, Clamp, Cleat, Dog, Jaw, Nip, Pawl, Pin, Pincer, Trigger), حکم نگاهداری وضبط. (various references)

Finnish

muottipesäsidoslaatta (cavity retainer plate), muottipesälaatta (cavity retainer plate). (various references)

French

provision (margin requirement, retainer fee). (various references)

German

Anwaltvorschuss. (various references)

Greek 

κρατών (arrester, holder), καπάκι εμβόλου φρένου (brake piston cup), συγκρατητής (bracket, holder, holding device, mounting, mounting bracket, support), σταθεροποιητής (ballast, booster, control gear, stabiliser, stabilizer), πλάκα στήριξης κοιλότητας καλουπιού (cavity retainer plate), ακόλουθοσ (attendant, follower, following, pursuivant, subsequent), τερματικό καπάκι συγκράτησης (cup retainer), δακτύλιος συγκράτησης (lock, lock washer, mounting ring), δακτύλιος στήριξης (mounting ring). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרסן, עוצר (governor, restrainer, sovereign). (various references)

Hungarian

alkalmazott (adapted, applied, assistant, employe, employee, hired, jobholder, junior clerk, operative, walla), rögzítőelem, fogó-készülék, csatlós (ally, henchman, henchmen, myrmidon, outrider, satellite), ügyvédi meghatalmazás (p.a., power of attorney, warrant of attorney), ügyvédi díj. (various references)

Italian

tazzetta (brake piston cup), staffa (hanger, stirrup, yoke), servitore (flunkey, flunky, footman, servant), piastra portamatrice (cavity retainer plate), onorario (emolument, fee, honorarium, honorary), ghiere d'arresto (cup retainer), fermo (arrest, catch, constant, durable, fast, firm, fixed, lock, motionless, settled, standing, stationary, steady, still, stop, tight), arresto (apprehension, arrest, capture, check, deadlock, detention, halt, stand, standstill, stop, stoppage), anello di supporto (mounting ring). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

陪侍 (attending on the nobility), 臣下 , 家臣 (vassal), 家人 (one's folks, the family), 家来 (retinue, servant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しんか (apotheosis, deepen, evolution, progress, real worth, sacred flame, true value), ばいじ (attending on the nobility), かしん (auspicious occasion, excitation, happy day, lower lip, low-rank retainer, lucky day, overestimating ability, tidings of flowers, trusting too much, vassal, word from home), けにん, けらい (retinue, servant). (various references)

Korean 

리테이너. (various references)

Manx

argid kianglee. (various references)

Pig Latin

etainerray

Portuguese

retentor (retentive). (various references)

Romanian

rezervare (reservation), reţinere (check, continence, deduction, detention, moderation, pause, reservation, restraint, retention, stoppage), servitor (attendant, dependant, dependent, domestic, follower, footman, hind, man servant, menial, ministrant, servant), pãrtaş (accomplice, acolyte, adept, limb), opritoare (breakwater, drag, dyke, shoe, skid), onorariu (emolument, fee, honorarium), om de serviciu (box-keeper, scout), fixator (fixative, fixing solution, jumper, lock), dispozitiv de retenţie. (various references)

Russian 

слуга (attendant, house-boy, man, manservant, servant, servitor, valet, varlet), вассал (liege, liege man, lieigeman, vassal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sačuvalac, pratilac (accompanist, escort, satellite, sidesman, tail), parnično punomoćstvo. (various references)

Spanish

retenedor (retaining washer), retén (lock, picket), taza del émbolo (brake piston cup), secuaz (devotee, follower, hanger, henchman, jackal, minion, stooge, trailer), place de alojamiento de la matriz (cavity retainer plate), partidario (acolyte, addict, adept, adherent, advocate, backer, believer, devotee, follower, guerrilla, hard liner, member, partisan, sharecropper, supporter, supremacist, sympathizer, well wisher), depósito (barrel, bond, cistern, deposit, depository, depot, escrow, morgue, Pinfold, repository, reservoir, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, tank, warehouse), criado (attendant, boy, fostering, gillie, Jack, kept, man, menial, peon, scout, servant, server), copa de retención (cup retainer), cerco de retención, arandela de retención (lock, lock washer, retaining washer), anticipo (advance, advance payment, anticipation), adherente (adherent, follower). (various references)

Swedish

vasall (liege, liege man, vassal), låsplatta (cavity retainer plate). (various references)

Thai

ผู้คอยติดตาม. (various references)

Turkish

yatak yuvası, uşak (body servant, do all, domestic help, factotum, flunkey, flunky, footman, helper, henchman, lackey, man, manservant, myrmidon, pursuivant, servant, servitor, valet, varlet, waiter), pey akçesi (earnest money, handsel, Hansel), kilit mandalı, dava takip anlaşması, avukatlık avansı, avans (advance, advance payment, allowance, earnest, head start, retaining fee). (various references)

Ukranian 

доручення адвокатові вести справу. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự giữ lại làm của riêng, sự được giữ lại làm của riêng tiền trả trước cho luật sư người hầu cận, người tuỳ tùng vật giữ, khoá dừng (catch, caught), cái hãm (brake, cataract). (various references)

dryhtguma, selesecg. (various references)

vassallus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "retainer": retainers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Retainer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ratiner, reainer, regainer, remainer, retainier, retainir, retainor, retaner, retrainer, Rishanger. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arenite, reinter, rentier, retinae, retrain, tearier, terrain, terrane, terrine, trainee, trainer.

-2 letters: aerier, artier, earner, entera, entire, errant, irater, nearer, neater, ranter, ratine, reearn, renter, retain, retear, retina, retine, retire, tearer, teniae, terrae, triene.

-3 letters: aerie, airer, antre, arete, eaten, eater, enate, enter, entia, inert, inter, irate, niter, nitre, ranee, rater, rente, reran.

+1 letter: certainer, entrainer, irredenta, retainers, retearing, retrained, ternaries, veratrine.

+2 letters: antimerger, entrainers, errantries, fraternize, freemartin, garnierite, generatrix, intergrade, interlayer, interregna, interrenal, irredentas, irrelevant, pretrained, realtering, recreating, recreation, restrained, restrainer, retreading, retreating, travertine, veratrines, veterinary.

+3 letters: areocentric, brainteaser, carpentries, centralizer, cerebrating, cerebration, enteroviral, entertainer, ferrimagnet, fraternized, fraternizer, fraternizes, freemartins, garnierites, graniteware, hereinafter, incarcerate, intercrater, interdealer, intergraded, intergrades, interlarded, interlayers, interlinear, interrelate, interrogate, ironhearted, itineraries, natriureses, neutralizer, overtrained, peregrinate, preterminal, pretreating, rearresting, reasserting, reassertion, recarpeting, recreations, recriminate, rectilinear, referential, refrainment, refrigerant, regathering, reincarnate, reinnervate, reintegrate, reiterating, reiteration, remarketing, remastering, reoperating, reoperation, reorientate, rerepeating, reservation, restrainers, retargeting, rethreading, retrainable, reverential, streamliner, trainbearer, transceiver, transpierce, travertines, veratridine.

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