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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ri-tey-ner |
| Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈteɪ nər |
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Définition of retainer
Origin :- "fee to secure services," mid-15c., originally "act of keeping for oneself" from retain, or perhaps from or influenced by Middle French retenir, infinitive used as a noun. Meaning "fee paid to an attorney to secure his services" is from 1818.
- noun staff
- Napier thought there was some collusion between the juggler and his retainer.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- Do I understand—do you mean that you wish me to accept Cousin Holliday's retainer?
- Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- And there is no retainer so devoted as he who is allowed to sit on the doorstep.
- Extract from : « Some Reminiscences » by Joseph Conrad
- They been paying me off—and that's a retainer, you might say.
- Extract from : « Police Your Planet » by Lester del Rey
- The Resident learned this from a retainer of one of these nobles.
- Extract from : « At the Point of the Bayonet » by G. A. Henty
- Old Jeff Stoups, who had been a retainer since the days of old Matt, quit. '
- Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney
- The ten, I take it, is a retainer for me to boost the yachtin' enterprise.
- Extract from : « Torchy and Vee » by Sewell Ford
- I must give Wilde a retainer to defend us in our libel actions.
- Extract from : « Grey Town » by Gerald Baldwin
- When he goes to other parts of the country on a retainer he takes them in the carriage with him.
- Extract from : « Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay » by George Otto Trevelyan
- The half-pay was meant to be a retainer as well as a reward.
- Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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