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retention
  1. The act of retaining or something retained
  2. The act or power of remembering things
  3. A memory; what is retained in the mind
  4. (medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces
  5. (medicine) The length of time an individual remains in treatment
  6. (obsolete) That which contains something, as a tablet; a means of preserving impressions.
  7. (obsolete) The act of withholding; restraint; reserve.
  8. (obsolete) A place of custody or confinement.
  9. (law) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “Martínez sued her for the retention of his belongings.”
      “He is thought to favor the retention of the current system, whereby donors of substantial sums are named.”
      “I can assure you that my faculties of retention are in perfect order.”
retainer
  1. Any thing or person that retains.
  2. A dependent or follower of someone of rank.
  3. A paid servant, especially one who has been employed for many years.
  4. A fee one pays to reserve the other's time for services.
  5. (dentistry) A device that holds teeth in position after orthodontic treatment.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “A solicitor who accepts a retainer owes a duty of care to his client.”
      “She spent most of her time in a windowless kitchen, conversing in a low voice with her faithful family retainer of over fifty years.”
      “From age twenty-two, he worked as a retainer for five different samurai families.”
retentivity
  1. The ability to retain, potential for retention
  2. (sciences) The capacity to retain magnetism after the magnetizing action
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  4. Examples:
    1. “While discussing different memory-enhancing techniques, the psychologist emphasized the importance of improving retentivity to optimize one's ability to retain and recall information effectively.”
      “Note that residual magnetism and retentivity are the same when the material has been magnetized to the saturation point.”
      “Hardened steel has a high degree of retentivity, while soft iron retains but little magnetism.”
retainership
  1. The practice of charging a retainer fee, or a client relationship based on such a fee.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In 2003, S. Sridhar had a retainership contract with Arthur J. Gallaher Asia Pte Ltd to assist for their entry strategy to India and once the venture is established to run the India operation.”
      “They had settled upon the Prince of India in a kind of retainership.”
retaining
  1. The act by which something or someone is retained; a retention.
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retainal
  1. The act of retaining or keeping; retention.
retainability
  1. The quality of being retainable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Most EPLOs are colonels or lieutenant colonels with at least three years retainability.”
      “An alternative test method to determine water retainability of porous fine aggregates is developed.”
      “These changes may produce a degradation in some KPIs such as retainability.”
retentiveness
  1. the state of being retentive
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The statement occurs in a discussion of the idea of progress in which Santayana contends that progress is more about retentiveness than about change.”
      “The only answer is to beef up the moisture retentiveness of the soil as much as possible with leaf mould, garden compost or whatever you have available, and then choose your plants from a limited range.”
      “As regarded novelties, his mind appeared to have lost its proper gripe and retentiveness.”
retentive
  1. (obsolete) That which retains or confines; a restraint.
retent
  1. That which is retained.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But it said the combination of being small,having the lowest unit costs, good retent ion of existing customers would help gross lending figures.”
      “The retent, when known, stands before us as if reflected and inverted in a mirror, the nearest events in the past being this way the nearest as actually remembered.”
retainment
  1. retention
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Whether the retainment of exuviae is characteristic of the species is open to question.”
      “The recruitment and retainment of health care professionals continues to be an issue and is expected to remain so for the foreseeable future.”
      “The people close to the investigation said that policies on e-mail retainment among the largest brokerage firms seem to vary widely.”
retainerships
  1. plural of retainership
retentivities
retainments
retainings
retentions
  1. plural of retention
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  3. Examples:
    1. “That system is also creaking to a halt, with plunging enlistments and retentions.”
      “However, for the most part these represent shared retentions, which are not valid means of grouping languages.”
      “In 2002, Treasury issued final regulations on adoptions, changes and retentions of annual accounting periods.”
retentives
  1. plural of retentive
retainers
  1. plural of retainer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Companies that work on retainers usually get the bulk of their fee before the search is complete.”
      “His retainers, now ronin, lordless samurai, pretend to scatter, some of them appearing to live dissolute lives.”
      “Your closest retainers and flatterers have never led you astray before and they will not fail you now.”
retents
  1. plural of retent
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