We found 31 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word retain:
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 General (24 matching dictionaries)
- retain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- retain: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- retain: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- Retain, retain: Wordnik [home, info]
- retain: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Retain: Wiktionary [home, info]
- retain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- retain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- retain: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- retain: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- retain: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- retain: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- retain: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- RETAIN: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Retain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- retain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- retain: Rhymezone [home, info]
- retain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- retain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- retain: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- retain: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- retain: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- retain: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- retain: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Business (1 matching dictionary)
- retain: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- retain: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
- retain: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
- retain: Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols [home, info]
- RETAIN: Acronym Finder [home, info]
- RETAIN: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
- retain: Idioms [home, info]
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Quick definitions (retain)
▸ verb: secure and keep for possible future use or application ("The landlord retained the security deposit")
▸ verb: allow to remain in a place or position ("She retains a lawyer")
▸ verb: hold within ("This soil retains water")
▸ verb: keep in one's mind ("I cannot retain so much information")
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