Usually means: Structure that holds back soil.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word retaining wall:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaining wall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. retaining wall: Merriam-Webster
  3. retaining wall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. retaining wall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. retaining wall: Collins English Dictionary
  6. retaining wall: Vocabulary.com
  7. retaining-wall, retaining wall: Wordnik
  8. retaining wall: Wiktionary
  9. retaining wall: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. retaining wall: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Retaining wall, retaining wall: Dictionary.com
  12. Retaining wall: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. retaining wall: Rhymezone
  14. retaining wall: FreeDictionary.org
  15. retaining wall: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. retaining wall: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. retaining wall: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retaining wall: Encyclopedia

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Retaining wall: Construction Glossary
  4. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See retaining_walls as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (retaining wall)

noun:  (civil engineering) Any of several structures used to restrain a vertical-faced mass of earth.

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