In a sentence
Six example sentences with retained, each labelled with its topic.
Retained earnings, rather than any new loan, paid for the second factory and the machines inside it.
Finance
Retained counsel arrived within the hour, since the firm had been on the family's payroll for two decades.
Law
The retained negatives from forty years of assignments filled a shoebox that a museum eventually bought for its archive.
Photography
The retained facade of the old bank now fronts a glass tower, and only the ground floor is original.
Architecture
Retained vocabulary after a month was twice as high for students who took a quiz instead of simply rereading the list.
Psychology
The retained logs cover only ninety days, so an investigation into last spring's outage had nothing to read.
Technology
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Found in these word lists
Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
- Science Vocabulary List
Each source is a published word list that contains retained. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.