Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A person who advocates retention

  2. (countable, uncountable)A person or government who advocates retention of the death penalty

Origin

From retention + -ist.

From retention + -ist.

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Forms

plural: retentionists
Singularretentionist
Pluralretentionists

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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