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retainingverbpresent participle of retain to continue to have in one's possession or powerI plan to retain the family heirlooms until my own children are mature enough to appreciate them, and then I will lovingly pass them on holding, keeping, reserving, withholding conserving, guarding, preserving, protecting, savingboasting, enjoying, having, owning, possessingcommanding, controlling, detaining, directing, managing, rulingbearing, harboringcherishing, clinging (to), hugging, treasuring hanging on to, holding on to giving up, handing over, releasing, relinquishing, surrendering, yielding abandoning, ceding, droppingcontributing, donating, giving, handing outdiscarding, dumpingdeclining, rejecting, repudiating, spurninglosing to keep, control, or experience as one's ownthat author retains the right to veto any changes in his books suggested by his publisher's notoriously intrusive editor commanding, enjoying, having, holding, owning, possessing keeping, reserving, withholdingbearing, carryingboasting, showing off, sporting rejoicing in lacking, wanting abandoning, ceding, disclaiming, disowning, handing over, relinquishing, renouncing, surrendering, yieldingdiscarding, dumpingdeclining, rejecting, repudiating, spurningneeding, requiring to provide with a paying jobher neighbor retained her as a nanny for the summer, thus giving her something to do until school started again assuming, employing, engaging, feeing(chiefly Scottish), hiring, laying on(chiefly British), paying, placing, recruiting, signing (up or on), taking on reemploying(or re-employing), reengaging(or re-engaging), rehiringapprenticing, contracting, jobbing, partnering, subcontractingenlistingadvancing, promoting, upgradingkeeping (on)headhunting, scouting axing, canning, discharging, dismissing, firing, sacking furloughing, laying off, locking out |