retainers是什么意思？

retainers

英[rɪ'teɪnəz] 美[rɪ'teɪnəz]

• n. （尤指服务多年的）仆人( retainer的名词复数 )，（为保留租房而付的）租房订金，（聘请律师等的）预付费用，牙齿固位体；

例句

• The retainers attended their lord. 仆人服侍他们的老爷。
• The rear door scuff plate is attached with molded - in snap retainers. 后车门框板由模制 紧压 保持器连接.
• Disconnect the power mirror wire harness retainers from the inner door panel. 从内侧车门饰板断开电动视镜电线束扣件.
• I tell you, even the retainers of the law , course life as greyhounds do hares. 我告诉你, 即使是那些执法如山的人,他们追求生活也象猎犬追逐野兔.
• All strippers will be postively retained using die pad retainers. 所有的脱料板应使用模板固定器从正面固定.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  定金;预付金
  A retainer is a fee that you pay to someone in order to make sure that they will be available to do work for you if you need them to.
  例句
  I'll need a five-hundred-dollar retainer... 我将收取500美元的定金。 Liz was being paid a regular monthly retainer. 利兹每月得到一笔预付金。
• N-COUNT
  （服务多年的）仆人，家仆
  A servant who has been with one family for a long time can be referred to as a retainer .
  例句
  I found the gardener, a family retainer, morosely surveying the scene. 我发现这个园丁——家里一个服侍多年的仆人，愁眉苦脸地审视着这个场景。