Crossword-Solution: RETAINER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retainer | n. | One who, or that which, retains. |
| Retainer | n. | One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on. |
| Retainer | n. | Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. |
| Retainer | n. | The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause. |
| Retainer | n. | The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right. |
| Retainer | n. | 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. |
| Retainer | n. | The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RETAINER | anagram | ERITREAN, RAINTREE, RENTERIA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RETAINER (5)
The exhibition of the card with the scrawl of green ink awoke a flicker of life in the parchment face of the depressed retainer, and it was with a certain shaky courtesy that he suggested that the strangers should remain.
The General was a gentleman, and yet had the flexible adaptability of a retainer; he had been trained in discipline, and hence knew how to defer without becoming fulsome or familiar; he was a man of the world and knew an unlimited number of racy stories, and even if he repeated some of them unduly, they were better than no stories at all.
Brus, like the other palace servants, considered De Vac a loyal retainer of the house of Plantagenet.
From being merely the retainer of some lordly or religious establishment, the smith worked to supply the general demand, and gradually became a manufacturer.
One was Sákuma-Shozan, hereditary retainer of one of the Shogun’s councillors, and from him he got more than money or than money’s worth.
Quotes with RETAINER (3)
Mr. Lisbon knew his parental and neighborly duty entailed putting the retainer in a Ziploc bag, calling the Kriegers, and telling them their expensive orthodontal device was in safe keeping. Acts like theses -- simple, humane, conscientious, forgiving -- held life together. Only a few days earlier he would have been able to perform them. But now he took the retainer and dropped it in the toiler. He pressed the handle. The retainer, jostled int he surge, disappeared down the p…
These friendly eyes, these lustful eyes, these hopeless, sad, dispirited eyes, these energetic amber eyes needing no escape, these serpent's eyes, cat's eyes, sorcerer's eyes, the eyes of future family men, funeral directors, and unsuspecting officers of the law, the mischievous eyes of plotters and planners, soon-to-be soldiers, or underworld attorneys on retainer, the eyes of maniacs and fanatics, hipsters and wallflowers, dreamers and the object of dreams, I gazed into the…
Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 57 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).