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
capacitance
capture
cling
dump
keep (something/someone) back
kept
lay
lay something aside
lay something down
lay something in
stash
stockpile
stockpiling
storage
store
trap

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Examples of retaining

retaining

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

How were scholars to live in the world while retaining an otherworldly image?
Early speculation focused on the advantages of retaining a mate.
The entrance to the shaft descended from the eastern edge of the retaining wall of the enclosure.
Retaining this approach would allow the random variable f to make distinctions that the probability measure f does not.
Another approach is to redefine the morpheme, retaining the notion of minimal unit, but eliminating the requirement that it be meaningful.
We have been methodologically conservative in only retaining political variables significant over all four rounds.
The sampling space is enlarged by retaining all parents and all offspring in the population rather than replacing parents by new offspring.
Here the breweries had to negotiate a global industry while retaining home support from patriotic customers and shareholders.
In such situations, a soil mulch could increase the soil temperature by retaining heat energy.
We read academic research articles with the idea of retaining relevant information to inform our own decision-making processes.
In this paper, we do this by retaining all of the flexible modes in the modal expansion of the tip output.
Male values of segregation and male workers' interest in retaining control and use of women's sexuality and labour are written into hiring practices.
They did this within a ' lineage mode ' - retaining kinship and seniority as the organizing principles of society, but reinterpreting the implications of those principles.
It has the peculiarity of shedding its leaves in the wet season and retaining them during the dry season.
The saturating sticky traps were reduced to their simplest form as flat discs without retaining panels or barriers.
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