diff --git a/app/models/retainer_deliverable.rb b/app/models/retainer_deliverable.rb
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+# A RetainerDeliverable is an HourlyDeliverable that is renewed at
+# regular calendar periods.  The Company bills a regular number of
+# hours for a hourly rate whereby the budgets are reset over a
+# regular cyclical period (often monthly).
+class RetainerDeliverable < HourlyDeliverable
+  unloadable
+
+end
diff --git a/test/unit/retainer_deliverable_test.rb b/test/unit/retainer_deliverable_test.rb
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+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
+
+class RetainerDeliverableTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+  should "be a subclass of HourlyDeliverable" do
+    assert_equal HourlyDeliverable, RetainerDeliverable.superclass
+  end
+end