Word Meanings - RETAINER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who, or that which, retains. 2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on. 3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell. 4. The act of a
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1. One who, or that which, retains. 2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on. 3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell. 4. 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. Bouvier. Blackstone. 5. The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence. Bacon.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETAINER)
- Follower
- Partisan
- adherent
- disciple
- henchman
- retainer
- pursuer
- attendant
- Servant
- Retainer
- domestic
- minister
- maid
- abigail
- handmaid
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RETAINER)
Related words: (words related to RETAINER)
- HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. - EXACTOR
One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor. - EXACTING
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n. - COMMANDING
1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn. - EXACTLY
In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft. - DOMESTICATE
1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild - EXACTION
1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my - COMMANDATORY
Mandatory; as, commandatory authority. - COMMANDO
In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce. - MINISTERY
See MILTON - ADHERENTLY
In an adherent manner. - COMMANDEER
To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers. 2. To take arbitrary or forcible possession of. - EXACT
drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine, measure; ex out + 1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps - EXACTRESS
A woman who is an exactor. B. Jonson. - COMMANDMENT
One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. 3. The act of commanding; exercise of authority. And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. Shak. (more info) 1. An order or injunction given - COMMANDINGLY
In a commanding manner. - COMMANDABLE
Capable of being commanded. - COMMANDRY
See COMMANDERY - MINISTERIALLY
In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister. - DISCIPLESS
A female disciple. - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - INEXACT
Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate. - MANSERVANT
A male servant. - CONDISCIPLE
A schoolfellow; a fellow-student. - CONSERVANT
Having the power or quality of conservation. - OBSERVANTLY
In an observant manner. - OBSERVANTINE
One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants. - UNDERMINISTER
To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. Wyclif. - BOND SERVANT
A slave; one who is bound to service without wages. If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40.