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retainer 音标拼音: [rɪt'enɚ] [rit'enɚ] n. 家臣,扈从,保持者 家臣,扈从,保持者 retainer n 1: a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone [ synonym: { retainer}, { consideration}] 2: a person working in the service of another ( especially in the household) [ synonym: { servant}, { retainer}] 3: a dental appliance that holds teeth ( or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatmentRetainer \ Re* tain" er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, retains. [ 1913 Webster] 2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger- on. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master' s livery. -- Cowell. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Law) ( a) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause. ( b) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right. ( c) 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}. -- Bouvier. -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] 5. The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 31 Moby Thesaurus words for " retainer": account, adherent, allowance, appendage, assessment, bill, blackmail, blood money, dangler, dependent, emolument, fee, follower, footing, hanger- on, heeler, henchman, hush money, initiation fee, man, mileage, reckoning, retaining fee, satellite, scot, servant, shadow, stipend, tagtail, tribute, ward heelerRETAINER, practice. The act of a client, by which he engages an attorney or counsellor to manage a cause, either by prosecuting it, when he is plaintiff, or defending it, when he is defendant. 2. " The effect of a retainer to prosecute or defend a suit," says Professor Greenleaf; Ev. vol. ii. Sec. 141; " is to confer on the attorney all the powers exercised by the forms and usages of the courts, in which the suit is pending. He may receive payment; may bring a second suit after being non- suited in the first for want of formal proof; may sue a writ of error on the judgment; may discontinue the suit; may restore an action after a non pros; may claim an appeal and bind his client in his name for the prosecution of it; way submit the suit to arbitration; may sue out an alias execution; may receive livery of seisin of land taken by an extent may waive objections to evidence, and enter into stipulation for the admission of facts or conduct of the trial and for release of bail; may waive the right of appeal, review, notice, and the like, and confess judgment. But he has no authority to execute a discharge of a debtor but upon the actual payment of the full amount of the debt, and that in money only; nor to release sureties; nor to enter a retraxit; nor to act for the legal representatives of his deceased client; nor to release a witness."
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