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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Retainer \Re*tain"er\, n.
     1. One who, or that which, retains.
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     2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an
        adherent; a hanger-on.


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     3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally
        attending and wearing his master's livery. --Cowell.
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     4. (Law)
        (a) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or
            counselor to manage his cause.
        (b) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by
            virtue of some right.
        (c) 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.
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     5. The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in
        dependence. --Bacon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  retainer
       n 1: a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone
            [syn: {consideration}]
       2: a person working in the service of another (especially in
          the household) [syn: {servant}]
       3: a dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in
          position after orthodontic treatment

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 heeler
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RETAINER, practice. The act of a client, by which he engages an attorney or 
  counsellor to manage a cause, either by prosecuting it, when he is 
  plaintiff, or defending it, when he is defendant. 
       2. "The effect of a retainer to prosecute or defend a suit," says 
  Professor Greenleaf; Ev. vol. ii. Sec. 141; "is to confer on the attorney 
  all the powers exercised by the forms and usages of the courts, in which the 
  suit is pending. He may receive payment; may bring a second suit after being 
  non-suited in the first for want of formal proof; may sue a writ of error on 
  the judgment; may discontinue the suit; may restore an action after a non 
  pros; may claim an appeal and bind his client in his name for the 
  prosecution of it; way submit the suit to arbitration; may sue out an alias 
  execution; may receive livery of seisin of land taken by an extent may waive 
  objections to evidence, and enter into stipulation for the admission of 
  facts or conduct of the trial and for release of bail; may waive the right 
  of appeal, review, notice, and the like, and confess judgment. But he has no 
  authority to execute a discharge of a debtor but upon the actual payment of 
  the full amount of the debt, and that in money only; nor to release 
  sureties; nor to enter a retraxit; nor to act for the legal representatives 
  of his deceased client; nor to release a witness." 
  
  

















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