Retainer Explained

Retainer may refer to:

• Retainer (orthodontics), devices for teeth
• RFA Retainer (A329), a ship
• Retainers in early China, a social group in early China

Employment

• Retainer agreement, a contract in which an employer pays in advance for work, to be secured or specified later, when required
• Domestic worker or servant, especially one who has been with one family for a long time (chiefly British English)
• Affinity (medieval), also Retinue, a person or group gathered around in the service of a lord

See also

• RETAIN, a mainframe-based database system
• Retainer sacrifice, the sacrifice of a human servant
• Retainer medicine, a relationship between a patient and a primary care physician in which the patient pays an annual fee or retainer
• Retention (disambiguation)