"retain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was secularized during the Reform War with the church retaining its original function.
- The new building retained its function as a music hall.
- Its development arm was shut down in 2013, but it retained its function as a video game licensor.
- Until that day, the census should retain its original function: counting the populace.
- Only the church retains its original function; the former monastery now houses a school.
- Over time, however, this area retained its function as a meeting place, to accommodate the market, which was institutionalised after 1000.
- It remains the only non-religious city building from the era to retain its original function and interior.
- The building did not always retain its original function.
- The old market area retains its original function to this day.
- The fourth quadrant has retained its original function as a vegetable garden.
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