retainer

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɹɪˈteɪn.ə/    美 /ɹɪˈteɪn.ɚ/|/ɹəˈteɪn.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any thing or person that retains.
  2. A dependent or follower of someone of rank.
    — If they possessed the means to marshal labour, pile up food resources and provender armies of year-round retainers, what sort of royalty would consciously elect not to do so.
  3. A paid servant, especially one who has been employed for many years.
    — Of all this family lore I knew but little and vaguely; only what is to be gathered from the fireside talk of old retainers in the nursery.
  4. A fee one pays to reserve the other's time for services.
    — This lawyer charges a retainer for his work.
  5. A device that holds teeth in position after orthodontic treatment.
    — You give me head / It makes it worse / Take out your fuckin' retainer / Put it in your purse
  6. A retaining valve.

词形变化

retainers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
general retainer retainerless retainership special retainer
相关词
brace

词源

Etymology tree
English retain
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English retainer
From retain + -er.
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