retaining

Etymology

adj

1. Of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of retain

noun

1. The act by which something or someone is retained; a retention.
   All retainings by indenture before that date were declared null and void 'other than to be the household servant or officer or of his [the lord's] council for lawful service done or to be done'. 1989, John Malcolm William Bean, From Lord to Patron: Lordship in Late Medieval England, page 212