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retention
Found in thesaurus: possession, ownership, module, faculty, mental faculty, impermeableness, impermeability
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retention
n.
act of keeping possession; maintenance, act of holding; memory, capacity to remember
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Retention
Retention may refer to:
General
- Recall (memory), in learning, the ability to recall facts and figures in memory
- Cultural retention
- Customer retention
- University student retention
- Employee retention, the ability to keep employees within an organization
- Grade retention, in schools, keeping a student in the same grade for another year (that is, not promoting the student to the next higher grade with his/her classmates)
- Retention basin,
- Retention election, in the United States court system, a process whereby a judge is periodically subject to a vote in order to remain in the position of judge
- Retention rate
- Retention ratio, in company earnings
- Retention of vision, in magic
- Water retention (medicine), abnormal accumulation of fluid in the body
- Urinary retention, the lack or inability to urinate
- Variable retention, in land management and forestry conservation
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retention
Noun
1. the act of keeping in your possession
(synonym) keeping, holding
(hypernym) possession, ownership
(hyponym) withholding
(derivation) retain, hold, keep back, hold back
2. the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger"
(synonym) memory, retentiveness
(hypernym) faculty, mental faculty, module
(hyponym) remembrance, recollection, anamnesis
(derivation) retain
3. the power of retaining liquid; "moisture retentivity of soil"
(synonym) retentiveness, retentivity
(hypernym) impermeability, impermeableness
(hyponym) urinary retention
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rétention
nf.
retention
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retention
n.
udržení; zadržení
