retaining wall

1. 1.

   a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)

   Broaderwall

Questions about retaining wall

What does retaining wall mean?

retaining wall means "a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)".

Is retaining wall a common word?

retaining wall is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.