retentionformal
law specialized
to get the services of a lawyer by paying them before you need them付定金聘请（律师）
He will retain the honorary title of non-executive chairman.他将保留非执行主席这个名誉头衔。
These plants need a rich soil which retains moisture.
When they divorced she retained a legal interest in the property.他们离婚时，她保留了房屋的合法产权。
The villagers retain a strong attachment to their traditional customs.
The management retains the right to refuse admission.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Keeping and storing things
appropriate
aside
bank
bogart
buffer
capacitance
cling
dump
husband
keep (something/someone) back
kept
lay something aside
lay something down
lodge
standby
stash
stockpile
stockpiling
storage
trap

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retain | American Dictionary

retain
verb[ T ]
us/rɪˈteɪn/
to keep or continue to have something:
Francis retained control of the company.
His capacity to retain (= remember) facts was as keen as ever, but he had trouble remembering people’s names.

retain | Business English

retain
verb[ T ]
uk /rɪˈteɪn/us
to keep or continue to have something, especially a position or money, or control of something:
Salespeople have developed novel ways to use the Web to reach or retain customers.
You retain the right to take legal action if you do not accept his decision.
retain control/ownership/possessionThe group will retain control of the business.
retain a stake/an interestThe family retains a minority stake in the company.
retain your job/postAtkinson retained his post in the enlarged banking group.
HR
to continue to employ people in a company or organization:
retain staff/talent/employeesWe will retain all of the employees currently employed at the plant.
Companies will achieve a competitive advantage by attracting and retaining the best talent.
Recruiting and retaining good staff will be among his top priorities.
MANAGEMENT, HR
to employ a lawyer, consultant (= someone paid to give expert advice or training), etc. by paying them before you need them:
The contractor had failed to disclose that he had retained an outside lobbyist.
Smith had retained a lawyer and filed a complaint with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
retain sb as sthVan Hellemond resigned, though the NHL has retained him as a consultant.
to keep a record, document, etc. that might be needed in the future:
The office must retain all e-mails pertaining to audits for at least 11 years.
He said he protected himself by retaining all the records on the project.
Please retain your receipt for future reference.

Examples of retain

retain
Authors should retain a copy of the original manuscript.
In doing so, the agent should retain more preferred beliefs in favor of less preferred ones wherever coherence permits.
In this early period, the government did not intervene in such activities as long as they retained a purely philanthropic goal.
Even today, in the context of increasing poverty, the village retains its reputation as a place of ultimate security.
Only those utterances produced during shared attention episodes were retained in each protocol.
We retained these items, however, because we wanted to compare the relative influence of family violence on an array of social dimensions including network size.
Whatever its precise nature, however, protolanguage and the other languages that eventually evolved would, forever after, retain some of that melody.
Only those variables that were significantly different between the groups under comparison were retained for the propensity score model.
In all three populations roughly four-fifths retained the same structure between registers.
However, the existence of a stress pattern to be retained during reading creates a potential conflict between the reading (primary) and memory (secondary) tasks.
At what rate do learners learn and retain new vocabulary from reading a graded reader?
These findings indicate that beginning readers retained some visual orthographic features of words in memory even after a 3-day delay.
As once essentially residential communities matured, politicians sought to raise their tax revenues whilst retaining small-scale, almost village life, within an increasingly urbanized milieu.
How were scholars to live in the world while retaining an otherworldly image?
The samples from a1 to f1 retain a midline orientation that features tongue retraction.
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