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Definition of Retains
1. retain [v] - See also: retain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retains
Literary usage of Retains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"Offers and agreements where the promisor retains an option. One of the commonest
kind of promises too indefinite for legal enforcement is where the promisor ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"As a widow retains her husband's name after her husband is taken away, so this
mixture of potato spirit and some inferior wine retains the name of port, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Such colonies arise when the original cell, instead of reproducing discontinuously,
retains its daughter- cells in union with itself or with one another, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Such colonies arise when the original cell, instead of reproducing discontinuously,
retains its daughter- cells in union with itself or with one another, ..."
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