Definitions for retainers

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retainers re·tain·er

Spelling: [ri-tey-ner]

IPA: /rɪˈteɪ nər/

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

You can make 539 anagrams from letters in retainers (aeeinrrst).

Definitions for retainers

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 retainers

First recorded in 1530-40; retain + -er¹

Examples for retainers

Do I understand—do you mean that you wish me to accept Cousin Holliday's 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 Resident learned this from a retainer of one of these nobles.

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

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

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

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

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

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.