Vocabulary : Retain to Retaliate
Retain : To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like. ;; To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor. ;; To restrain; to prevent. ;; To belong; to pertain. ;; To keep; to continue; to remain.Retainable : Capable of being retained.
Retainal : The act of retaining; retention.
Retained : of Retain
Retainer : 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.
