retainership

English edit

retainership (plural retainerships)

The practice of charging a retainer fee, or a client relationship based on such a fee.
- 1842 January, “Pictorial History of England”, in The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 74, page 454:
  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 […]