Definitions for retainer

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retainer re·tain·er

Spelling: [ri-tey-ner]

IPA: /rɪˈteɪ nər/

Retainer is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in retainer (aeeinrrt).

Definitions for retainer

noun

1. a person or thing that retains.
2. a servant or attendant who has served a family for many years.
3. Also called cage, separator. Machinery. a ring separating, and moving with, balls or rollers in a bearing.
4. Orthodontics. a fixed or removable device worn in the mouth to hold the teeth in their new position during the adaptive period after straightening appliances have been removed. Prosthodontics. a part on a bridge or the like by which the bridge is attached to the natural teeth.
5. the act of retaining in one's service.
6. the fact of being so retained.
7. a fee paid to secure services, as of a lawyer.

Origin of retainer

First recorded in 1530-40; retain + -er¹

Examples for retainer

They been paying me off—and that's a retainer, you might say.

The Resident learned this from a retainer of one of these nobles.

Old Jeff Stoups, who had been a retainer since the days of old Matt, quit. '

Napier thought there was some collusion between the juggler and his retainer.

Like any high-powered attorney who charges $100,000 for a retainer, Bolt always seems to be one step ahead of the competition.

The ten, I take it, is a retainer for me to boost the yachtin' enterprise.

And there is no retainer so devoted as he who is allowed to sit on the doorstep.

One of the perks offered by the challenge is help from a list of professionals the foundation will keep on retainer.

Do I understand—do you mean that you wish me to accept Cousin Holliday's retainer?

Is it worth it for these companies to keep stars and their keepers on retainer?