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retainer
retainer is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, retains. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
One who, or that which, retains.
- 2noun
One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.
- 3noun
Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
- 4noun
The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
- 5noun
The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.
- 8noun
a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment
- 9noun
a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
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- 10noun
a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone
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