retainer

Other forms of retainer

plural

retainers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about retainer

What does retainer mean?

retainer means "a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in retainer?

retainer has 3 syllables: re-tai-ner. The stress falls on "tai". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈteɪnɚ/.

What is another word for retainer?

Close synonyms include consideration, servant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is retainer a common word?

retainer is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with retainer?

2 words rhyme with retainer. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.