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retainage

noun

Etymology

From retain + -age.

  1. derived from *ten-✻ — “to extend, stretch”
  2. derived from retinēre
  3. derived from *retino✻
  4. derived from retenir — “to keep back, retain; to keep, maintain, preserve; to possess; to engage in one’s service, employ; to detain; to hold back, restrain; to remember”
  5. derived from retenir
  6. derived from reteiner
  7. inherited from reteinen
  8. suffixed as retainage — “retain + age”

Definitions

  1. An amount of money held back from a payment as insurance against the work not being…

    An amount of money held back from a payment as insurance against the work not being completed.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA