Sentence examples for on a retainer from inspiring English sources

Duckers had earlier said he was on a retainer of £1,000 a month and a £6 hourly fee.

That agreement followed the revelation, in a hearing convened by Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, that the former head of A.I.G.'s troubled financial products unit, Joseph J. Cassano, had been put on a retainer of $1 million a month after being dismissed in February.

My boss at the time said, "We'd like to put you on a retainer". For a $1,000 a month, they retained me.

Now she has eight clients, seven of them on a retainer.

Ferrari signed him on a retainer, but he started out in Formula One racing at Sauber in 2002.

She'd been on a retainer from EMI since she was 16, having already written enough material for two albums.

However, early-stage tech startups aren't often keen to hire non-technical folks with PR-like experience to join their teams full-time, so engaging with an agency on a retainer-basis — while not cheap — becomes a viable option.

A variation on this approach is a retainer.

The late King Hussein was put on a C.I.A. retainer.

After that, they put me on a riot retainer.

The entire team was on a monthly retainer of nearly £40,000 – a total of almost £500,000 a year.