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  • adjective Not retainable.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ retainable

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Examples

  • Luckily for the Army, though, "unretainable" does not mean "nondeployable," so during the mad rush to get everybody over here and miserable as quickly as possible, I was stop-lossed and swept up into the folds of idiocy along with everyone else.

    bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2007

  • At that time, I was told that I would not be allowed to reenlist because I was deemed "unretainable."

    bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2007

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