Usually means: Kept in possession or memory.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word retained:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. retained: Merriam-Webster
  2. retained: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retained: Vocabulary.com
  4. Retained, retained: Wordnik
  5. retained: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. retained: Wiktionary
  7. Retained, retained: Dictionary.com
  8. retained: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Retained: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. retained: Rhymezone
  11. Retained: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. retained: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. retained: FreeDictionary.org
  14. retained: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. retained: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. retained: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. retained: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. retained: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. retained: Medical dictionary

(Note: See retain as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (retained)

adjective:  continued in your keeping or use or memory ("In...the retained pattern of dancers and guests remembered")


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