Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being retained.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being retained.
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- adjective Capable of being
retained .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ideally, advantage in industries that are large, strongly retainable, and with a long future potential for innovation, and many spin-off industries, ahead of it.
Ian Fletcher: How to Think Our Way Out of Our Trade Crisis Ian Fletcher 2011
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I also doubt that many ‘landless’ investors of ‘hot money’ are going to pin their dreams of retainable wealth on the land of Gandhi with its boisterous democracy, cumbersome bureaucracy and opaque banking system.
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Real journalism … here is an idea … leave the media business, and become retainable entities that groups of people can co-opt to investigate and accurately report news on a per need basis.
Murdoch Warns That Without eTablets, “Newspapers Will Go Out Of Business.” Erick Schonfeld 2005
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They have scarcely brought themselves into a retainable position when the door opens and Mr. Amherst enters the room, followed by Sir
Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
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Kent went with her obediently, but not without wondering why she had sent for him, of all the retainable lawyers in the capital.
The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893
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They did not foresee, these ingenuous legislators, that if property is retainable by intent alone -- nudo animo -- it carries with it the right to let, to lease, to loan at interest, to profit by exchange, to settle annuities, and to levy a tax on a field which intent reserves, while the body is busy elsewhere.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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They did not foresee, these ingenuous legislators, that if property is retainable by intent alone -- _nudo animo_ -- it carries with it the right to let, to lease, to loan at interest, to profit by exchange, to settle annuities, and to levy a tax on a field which intent reserves, while the body is busy elsewhere.
What is Property? 1837
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Ideally, advantage in industries that are large, strongly retainable, and with a long future potential for innovation, and many spin-off industries, ahead of it.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ian Fletcher 2011
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He was very amusing and would put things across in a way that was both amusing and retainable.
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EFE trains youth to be employable, allowing employers to hire skilled, dependable and retainable employees.
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