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retainer

[ri-tey-ner] / rɪˈteɪ nər /


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Without having proxy advisers on retainer, annual meetings are dominated by those who do: asset managers and activist investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

"In the American version, it's a very expensive format, having a writers' room and keeping a cast of actors on retainer, essentially, the whole time. That's really expensive," Lewis told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025

We know they weren’t for legal expenses as posted in the books, or a retainer – and not just because no retainer existed.

From Salon • May 24, 2024

Cohen, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to a variety of federal crimes, including some related to the hush money, asserted that there was no retainer agreement and that he had not accrued any legal expenses.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2024

The honest old family retainer, she thought, proud and loyal and thoroughly unpleasant.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson




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