Usually means: Obtains or gets back something.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word retrieves:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. retrieves: Merriam-Webster
  2. retrieves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retrieves: Vocabulary.com
  4. Retrieves, retrieves: Wordnik
  5. retrieves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. retrieves: Wiktionary
  7. retrieves: Dictionary.com
  8. retrieves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. retrieves: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrieves: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrieves: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrieves: Idioms

(Note: See retrieve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (retrieve)

verb:  (transitive) To regain or get back something.
verb:  (transitive) To rescue (a creature).
verb:  (transitive) To salvage something
verb:  (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
verb:  (transitive) To remember or recall something.
verb:  (transitive) To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
verb:  (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
verb:  (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
verb:  (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
verb:  (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
verb:  (obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
noun:  A retrieval
noun:  (sports) The return of a difficult ball
noun:  (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
noun:  (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.
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