What is another word for retainers?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪtˈe͡ɪnəz] (IPA)

Retainers are often associated with orthodontic appliances, but there are many other senses of the word. Synonyms for retainers might include employees, aides, assistants, staff, helpers, retainees, advisers, counselors, consultants, attorneys, barristers, solicitors, representatives, agents, delegates, and mediators. Depending on the context, other related terms could include allies, advocates, supporters, benefactors, patrons, protectors, defenders, and champions. Retainers can also refer to fees charged by lawyers or consultants for their ongoing services, or to the clasp or wire used to hold orthodontic appliances in place. Overall, retainers are closely associated with support, defense, maintenance, and representation in various contexts.

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Usage examples for Retainers

It was with a medley of such retainers that he was at present on a cruise along the shores of the Hudson, in a pinnace which he kept for his own recreation.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Every member of this had seen, often enough, the son of some wealthy landholder from the upland country attended by a sufficient number of his own retainers to keep him from being plundered, and it was well enough to let him alone.
"Ahead of the Army"
W. O. Stoddard
He knew that his announcement would be a blow to the old man; but this was a world of blows; and after all, one could not organize one's life to suit the sentiments of old family idiots of retainers, served they never so faithfully.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke

Famous quotes with Retainers

  • Present-day students are often puzzled at the apparent contradictions of Southern slavery. One hears, on the one hand, of the staid and gentle patriarchy, the wide and sleepy plantations with lord and retainers, ease and happiness; on the other hand one hears of barbarous cruelty and unbridled power and wide oppression of men. Which is the true picture? The answer is simple: both are true. They are not opposite sides of the same shield; they are different shields.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Industrial progress, mechanical improvement, all of the great wonders of the modern era have meant little to the wealthy. The rich in ancient Greece would have benefited hardly at all from modern plumbing — running servants replaced running water. Television and radio — the patricians of Rome could enjoy the leading musicians and actors in their home, could have the leading artists as domestic retainers. Ready-to-wear clothing, supermarkets — all these and many other modern developments would have added little to their life. They would have welcomed the improvements in transportation and in medicine, but for the rest, the great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful.
    Milton Friedman
  • Hecould see little good in the clergy, while he utterly condemned the military, the rulers of the earth, the judges, the capitalists, the landlords, the merchants, the jailers, the functionaries. He assailed modern art and classed artists with scientists and ministers as the lackeys of a degenerate and parasitic class of wealthy men. Political economists he considered as retainers of the same class
    Robert Hunter (author)
  • Nannie Bruce, a tall, gangling light-heavyweight with a suggestion in her appearance of a private in the Grenadiers dressed up to play the title role in Charley’s Aunt, was one of those doggedly faithful retainers who adhere to almost all old families like barnacles to the hulls of ships...She was as much a fixture as the stone lions or the funny smell in the attic.
    P. G. Wodehouse

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