单词 | retaining fee |
释义 | > as lemmasretaining fee 2. Designating money paid to retain a person's (frequently a lawyer's) services; esp. in retaining fee. Cf. retainer n.1 3. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > fee of professional person > barrister's fee bait1578 retaining fee1659 refreshing fee1697 retainer1770 refresher1796 refresher fee1818 1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 175 This is the Time, for my Retaining Fee. 1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer ii. i. 23 While I plead for you, your Aunt has given me a retaining Fee. 1705 S. Centlivre Gamester i. i. 2 I find Dorante, my Masters Uncle, has given you a retaining Fee. 1732 A. Pope True Narr. what passed in London in J. Swift et al. Misc.: 3rd Vol. 273 Imagining a Pension was only an annual retaining Bribe. 1802 E. Parsons Myst. Visit I. 27 A note of twenty pounds, received as a retaining fee. 1842 R. Meeson & W. L. Welsby Rep. Cases Court of Exchequer VIII. 150 Half-pay..was a retaining payment for future services. 1908 Parl. Deb. Commonw. Austral. 37 1757/1 A veterinary surgeon..may be paid a retaining fee, so that he may be called in at any time to make an inspection. 1939 D. Thomas Let. July (1987) 390 I'm hoping for retaining money from Dent's. 2008 Church Times 15 Feb. 22/3 The committee setting registrars' retaining fees needed ‘a good deal of legal experience’. < as lemmas |
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