Retain vs Administrator - What's the difference?
retain | administrator |
To keep in possession or use.
* Milton
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To keep in one's pay or service.
* Addison
To employ by paying a retainer.
To hold secure.
(obsolete) To restrain; to prevent.
(obsolete) To belong; to pertain.
* Boyle
One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager
(legal) A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority
(computing) One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network
As a verb retain
is to keep in possession or use.As a noun administrator is
one who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.retain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Be obedient, and retain / Unalterably firm his love entire.
- A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.
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- A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defence.
- A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness.