Definition of "retrievers" [retrievers]

• Plural form of retriever. (noun)

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• "Outside, "retrievers" - hired thugs sent by local authorities to bring back those attempting to lodge complaints-lurk around the offices, assaulting petitioners and sometimes threatening to kill them if they do not leave Beijing."
• "Finally, we reckon also among hunting dogs some very happy crosses between the spaniels and the barbets, which in England are called retrievers or water spaniels."
• "At 9: 00, my "retrievers" came to help, but there was no sign right away and that's always disheartening."