Noun: retriever ri'tree-vu(r)
- A dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game
"Labrador retrievers are popular both as hunting dogs and family pets"
- A person who finds and brings back something
"He worked as a retriever of lost luggage at the airport"
- (computing) a program or function that locates and returns data from a database or storage system
"The search engine uses an efficient retriever to fetch relevant documents"
Derived forms: retrievers
Type of: gun dog, sporting dog
Encyclopedia: Retriever