retainership means the practice of charging a retainer fee, or a client relationship based on such a fee.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, retainership ranks #16,962 of 21,777 for Qualifying.
Etymology
From retainer + -ship.
noun
- The practice of charging a retainer fee, or a client relationship based on such a fee.“In the fourteenth century, the old English tie of retainership, similar to, but more liberal than that which had connected the thane and churl in earlier days, had replaced whatever of feudal relation the Norman Conquest had introduced […]”