Word Meaning

Meaning of "retainers" and the crossword clue

- Dental appliance
- Faithful servant
- Fee paid in advance to keep Her Majesty
- Fee paid to have bad entertainers sent away
- Lawyer’s advance
- QC's advance
- Servant
- QCs' advances
- One who, or that which, retains.
- One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.
- Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
- 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.
- The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.