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Definition of Retain

Retain

  1. To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.
  2. To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
  3. To restrain; to prevent.
  4. To belong; to pertain.
  5. To keep; to continue; to remain.

Retain Quotations

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron
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Retain Translations

retain in Danish is opholde
retain in Dutch is reserveren, detineren, ophouden
retain in French is retenez, retiennent, retiens, retenons
retain in German is einbehalten, festhalten, beibehalten, halten
retain in Italian is trattenere
retain in Portuguese is retenha
retain in Spanish is retener

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