retainers

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Retainers of $100,000 a month are few and far between.

From The Guardian • May 12, 2018

Retainers were now soldiers, and now labourers, as the day required.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

"Retainers to Seven Shares and a Half."—Can any reader of "N. & Q.," conversant with the literature of the seventeenth century, furnish an explanation of this phrase?

From Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Retainers and guards, slaves and soldiers, and even women, were lounging about, and a beautiful tame little pet roedeer played with the pretty children in bright coloured dresses, clustering under the cavernous archway.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John

Retainers were dismissed, households were reduced and a demand for commodities was substituted for a demand for labor.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart