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retainership

noun

Etymology

From retainer + -ship.

  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. formed as retainer — “retain + -er”
  9. suffixed as retainership — “retainer + ship”

Definitions

  1. The practice of charging a retainer fee, or a client relationship based on such a fee.

    • In the fourteenth century, the old English tie of retainership, similar to, but more liberal than that which had connected the thane and churl in earlier days, had replaced whatever of feudal relation the Norman Conquest had introduced […]

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