Retard :: Retard (v. t.) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate..

Retard :: Retard (v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations..

Retard :: Retard (v. i.) To stay back.

Retard :: Retard (n.) Retardation; delay.

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration..

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.

Retardative :: Retardative (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard..

Retarded :: Retarded (imp. & p. p.) of Retar.

Retarder :: Retarder (n.) One who, or that which, retards..

Retarding :: Retarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retar.

Retardment :: Retardment (n.) The act of retarding; retardation.

Secretarial :: Secretarial (a.) Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary.

Secretariat :: Secretariat (n.) Alt. of Secretariat.

Secretariate :: Secretariate (n.) The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc..

Secretaries :: Secretaries (pl. ) of Secretar.

Secretary :: Secretary (n.) One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets..

Secretary :: Secretary (n.) A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual..

Secretary :: Secretary (n.) An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc..

Secretary :: Secretary (n.) A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire..

Secretary :: Secretary (n.) The secretary bird.

Secretaryship :: Secretaryship (n.) The office, or the term of office, of a secretary..

Undersecretary :: Undersecretary (n.) A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury..

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