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- English Word Retailing Definition of Retail
- English Word Retailment Definition The act of retailing.
- English Word Retain Definition To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.
- English Word Retain Definition To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
- English Word Retain Definition To restrain; to prevent.
- English Word Retain Definition To belong; to pertain.
- English Word Retain Definition To keep; to continue; to remain.
- English Word Retainable Definition Capable of being retained.
- English Word Retainal Definition The act of retaining; retention.
- English Word Retained Definition of Retain
- English Word Retainer Definition One who, or that which, retains.
- English Word Retainer Definition One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.
- English Word Retainer Definition Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
- English Word Retainer Definition The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
- English Word Retainer Definition The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
- English Word Retainer Definition 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.
- English Word Retainer Definition The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.
- English Word Retaining Definition of Retain
- English Word Retainment Definition The act of retaining; retention.
- English Word Retake Definition To take or receive again.
- English Word Retake Definition To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
- English Word Retaker Definition One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor.
- English Word Retaliate Definition To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]
- English Word Retaliate Definition To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
- English Word Retaliated Definition of Retaliate
- English Word Retaliating Definition of Retaliate
- English Word Retaliation Definition The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
- English Word Retaliative Definition Same as Retaliatory.
- English Word Retaliatory Definition Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
- English Word Retard Definition To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.