Retained Synonyms and Antonyms

Employed
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. employed
  2. hired
  3. engaged
  4. contracted
  5. promised
  6. chosen
  7. selected
  8. given a position
  9. taken-on
  10. jobholding
  11. secured
  12. bespoken
  13. working
Antonyms:
  1. unemployed
  2. disengaged
  3. let-go
  4. lost
  5. wasted
  6. refused
Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. continued
  2. maintained
  3. kept
To reserve services
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. hired
  2. engaged
  3. employed
To keep
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. husbanded
  2. possessed
  3. owned
  4. held
  5. preserved
Secure and keep for possible future use or application
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. held
  2. hold
  3. clutched
  4. grasped
Antonyms:
  1. lost
  2. freed
  3. released
  4. spent

Words Related to Retained

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. work
  2. worked
  3. wholetime
  4. salaried
  5. gotten

Retained Sentence Examples

  • He certainly retained his dignity.

  • Dean retained his smile.

  • A decree of the parlement (1606), obtained by Marguerite de Valois, deprived him of nearly all his possessions, including Auvergne, though he still retained the title.

  • In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

  • Everything I found in books that pleased me I retained in my memory, consciously or unconsciously, and adapted it.

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