Retainer

Definition

retain /rÇ'teÇn/ v ( esp fml ) ၁။ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားသည္။ စြဲကိုင္ထားသည္။ retain one's freedom/ indepen- dence ❍ try to retain a flexible approach ❍ a player struggling to retain his place in the team ❍ The ceremony retains an aura of mystery. ❍ We retained the original fireplace when we decorated the room. ❍ The police retained control of the situation. ❍ Military intervention was retained as a possible future course of action. ၂။ ထိန္းထားသည္။ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားသည္။ Clay soil retains water. ❍ This information is no longer retained within the computer's main memory. ၃။ ( techn ) (ေရွ႕ေန) ငွားရမ္းထားသည္။ (အက်ဳိးေဆာင္မႈ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာအတြက္) ပံုမွန္ အခေၾကးေငြ ေပး သည္။ retain a barrister/ consultant ❍ a retaining fee. See also RETENTION ❏ retainer n ၁။ ( techn ) အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ခ အျဖစ္ ပံုမွန္ေပးေငြ။ She was paid $ 30 an hour plus a $ 500 a month retainer. ၂။ ( arch or joc ) ငယ္ကြၽန္။ အေစအပါး။ the king's retainers. ❏ retaining adj အေနအထား အမွန္ထိန္းထားႏိုင္ရန္ စီမံထား ေသာ။ အထိန္း။ a retaining screw/ strap ❍ a retaining wall (ie one that supports a mass of earth or confines water in a RESERVOIR(၁)).

Examples

1. These plans encourage the elderly to retain their independence.
2. We’re trying to recruit and retain skilled staff.
3. The US expects to retain control over the operation.
4. I shall retain a lasting and fond memory of him.
5. It will cost £2
6. 500 to retain a good lawyer.