Estate Planning. The most common form of retainer fees apply to lawyers, who in most cases require those seeking services to provide an upfront retainer fee, for example $500.EFINITION of 'Retainer Fee'. An upfront cost incurred by an individual in order to ensure the services of a consultant, freelancer, etc. A retainer fee is paid most commonly to individual third-parties who have been engaged by the payer to perform a service for them or on their behalf.
Because the Latin irregular plurals are most common, and sound loftier than the regular plural, there is a tendency to hypercorrect the plural of any word ending in-us and-um in particular, even when there is no historical basis for it. And thus, Oxford tells us. The standard plural in English of octopus is octopuses. However, the word octopus comes from Greek, and the Greek plural form octopodes is still occasionally used. The plural form octopi is mistakenly formed according to rules for Latin plurals, and is therefore incorrect.
Octopus Octopus are mollusks like squid. There are about 200 species of octopus. There are two large groups of octopus. The cirrata or finned octopuses live in the deep sea at depths of between 1000 and 24,000 feet. About 85% of octopus are in the incirrata group. They have no fins and live in shallow water in caves or crevices. Octopus have no shell at all, not even an inner one. They have eight tentacles. The tentacles have suction cups on them and are used to hold onto prey. The tentacles also have taste sensors that let the octopus know if what it grabbed is worth eating. The octopus' mouth is in the center of its tentacles.