Usually means: Keeping something in its place.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word Retaining:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaining: Merriam-Webster
  2. retaining: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retaining: Collins English Dictionary
  4. retaining: Vocabulary.com
  5. Retaining, retaining: Wordnik
  6. retaining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. retaining: Wiktionary
  8. Retaining, retaining: Dictionary.com
  9. retaining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Retaining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. retaining: Rhymezone
  12. Retaining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. retaining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. retaining: FreeDictionary.org
  15. retaining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaining: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. retaining: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. retaining: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. retaining: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retaining)

▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.
▸ noun:  The act by which something or someone is retained; a retention.

Similar:
retentive, holding, retentional, resorptive, residual, conservational, restitutionary, restitutive, retardational, restitutory, more...

Opposite:
releasing, discarding, surrendering, abandoning, losing

Types:
concrete, steel, wood, stone, rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, more...

Phrases:
retaining wall, retaining walls, Retaining ring, retaining fee, retaining lien, more...

Adjectives:
self, sodium, pressure, practical, ink, temporary, potential, tongue, potassium

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Similar:
retentive, holding, retentional, resorptive, residual, conservational, restitutionary, restitutive, retardational, restitutory, more...

Opposite:
releasing, discarding, surrendering, abandoning, losing

Types:
concrete, steel, wood, stone, rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, more...

Phrases:
retaining wall, retaining walls, Retaining ring, retaining fee, retaining lien, self retaining catheter, denture retaining force, hawley retaining orthodontic appliance, retaining orthodontic appliance, more...

Adjectives:
self, sodium, pressure, practical, ink, temporary, potential, tongue, potassium

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     beige,     taupe,     olive, more...



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