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retainer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun retainer has 3 senses
- retainer(n = noun.possession) consideration - a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone; Array is a kind of fee
- retainer(n = noun.person) servant - a person working in the service of another (especially in the household); Array is a kind of worker
- retainer(n = noun.artifact) Array - a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment; Array is a kind of dental appliance
has particulars: quid, quid pro quo
has particulars: body servant, cabin boy, domestic, domestic help, house servant, factotum, familiar, flunkey, flunky, lackey, major-domo, seneschal, manservant, menial, scullion, servant girl, serving girl
CIDE DICTIONARY
retainer, n.
- One who, or that which, retains. [1913 Webster]
- One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on. [1913 Webster]
- Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell. [1913 Webster]
- The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause. Bouvier.
Blackstone. [1913 Webster] - The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
retainer, n.
1 a person or thing that retains.
2 Law a fee for retaining a barrister etc.
3 a hist. a dependant or follower of a person of rank. b joc. an old and faithful friend or servant ( esp. old retainer).
4 Brit. a reduced rent paid to retain accommodation during a period of non-occupancy.
1 a person or thing that retains.
2 Law a fee for retaining a barrister etc.
3 a hist. a dependant or follower of a person of rank. b joc. an old and faithful friend or servant ( esp. old retainer).
4 Brit. a reduced rent paid to retain accommodation during a period of non-occupancy.
THESAURUS
retainer
account, adherent, allowance, appendage, assessment, bill, blackmail, blood money, dangler, dependent, emolument, fee, follower, footing, hanger-on, heeler, henchman, hush money, initiation fee, man, mileage, reckoning, retaining fee, satellite, scot, servant, shadow, stipend, tagtail, tribute, ward heelerROGET THESAURUS
retainer
Servant
N servant, subject, liegeman, servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache, official, retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court, attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy, train bearer, cup bearer, waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre, equerry, groom, jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd, barkeeper, bartender, bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper, khansamah, khansaman, khitmutgar, yardman, bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers, secretary, under secretary, assistant secretary, clerk, subsidiary, agent, subaltern, underling, understrapper, man, maid, maidservant, handmaid, confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette, amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah, nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid, femme de chambre, femme fille, camarista, chef de cuisine, cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella, potwalloper, maid of all work, servant of all work, laundress, bedmaker, journeyman, charwoman, bearer, chokra, gyp (Cambridge), hamal, scout (Oxford), serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot, bondsman, bondswoman, bondslave, ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe, villian, villein, beadsman, bedesman, sizar, pensioner, pensionary, client, dependant, dependent, hanger on, satellite, parasite, led captain, protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature, badge of slavery, bonds, in the train of, in one's pay, in one's employ, at one's call, in bonds.
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