What's the difference between houseman and retainer?

Houseman


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some authors review the proforma on which the patient information is collected before it is entered into the computer, a point strongly made by Mr. Dunn and it does seem likely that as audit information is collected and challenged, then considerable efforts will have to be made to ensure the accuracy of the information being entered, for there is little point in defending an audit result by suggesting that the houseman who made the original entry did not do so very accurately.
  • (2) After houseman level, individuality increases again.
  • (3) La Garganta Poderosa is covering the World Cup from the favelas and have recruited ex-Argentinian international René “El Loco” Houseman to travel with them to provide insights.
  • (4) The ball clanks off the middle of the left-hand post, in super slow-motion technicolor, Rene Houseman hacks clear, and 51 seconds later, the referee blows the final whistle.
  • (5) News Corporation also named strategic adviser Jon Houseman to the newly-created role of president of digital journalism initiatives.
  • (6) But we are considering this offer over the next few days and are due to meet Camelot to discuss this next Monday.” Houseman added: “This occupation has done a lot of what it set out to achieve, to raise the concerns of many Londoners about the homelessness crisis and generate public discussion in the media.
  • (7) The exact details would need to be agreed by the appointed trustees.” Sam Houseman, one of the squatters occupying the former Camelot HQ, said: “We have received a significant offer of an arrangement to keep this building as an arts and culture space until it has been sold.
  • (8) The attachment required careful planning and case-by-case supervision of the houseman.
  • (9) One surgical firm (of one consultant, one registrar, and one preregistration houseman) in a district general hospital.
  • (10) Houseman, who grew up in a villa , has claimed he scored goals while completely plastered at times .
  • (11) However, the judge found that she had in fact been warned before the operation both by the consultant in May 1981 and by the houseman who took her consent to the operation.

Retainer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, retains.
  • (n.) One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.
  • (n.) Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
  • (n.) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
  • (n.) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
  • (n.) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee.
  • (n.) The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
  • (2) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
  • (3) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
  • (4) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
  • (5) Despite this alteration in subcellular distribution, the mutant polypeptide retained the ability to induce fibroblast transformation by several parameters, including the ability to display anchorage-independent growth.
  • (6) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
  • (7) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (8) ITV retained its quasi-feudal structure until the 1990s.
  • (9) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
  • (10) Ultraviolet difference spectrophotometry indicates that the inactivated enzyme retains its capacity for binding the nucleotide substrates whereas the spectral perturbation characteristic of 3-phosphoglycerate binding is abolished in the modified enzyme.
  • (11) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
  • (12) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
  • (13) Bivalent F(ab')(2) also retains its insulin-like effects.
  • (14) In this study, a technique is described by which large obturators can be retained with an acrylic resin head plate.
  • (15) At the end of the dusting period those animals treated with normally charged dust had significantly more chrysotile retained in their lungs than animals exposed to discharged dust.
  • (16) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (17) Formula fed infants retained more nitrogen and gained weight faster.
  • (18) As an extension of the previous study which indicated that mesoglea is a primitive basement membrane which has retained some characteristics of interstitial extracellular matrix, the present study was undertaken to analyze the role of mesoglea components during head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris.
  • (19) The resulting cell lines have a stable phenotype and retain the changes which result from transformation even after extended passaging.
  • (20) Protein synthesis in cell-free extracts from resistant or susceptible bacteria was equally susceptible to inhibition by Cd(2+), but spheroplasts from resistant bacteria retained their resistance.

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