retention
retention Lexical Profile
retention Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The continued possession, use, or control of something, especially employees, customers, or assets.
"The company introduced flexible work hours to improve employee retention."
The ability to remember or retain knowledge, facts, and impressions over time.
"Regular review sessions significantly increase a student's retention of new vocabulary."
The action of absorbing and continuing to hold a substance, such as heat or moisture; in medicine, the failure to eliminate a fluid or waste product normally excreted from the body.
"Excessive sodium intake is a common cause of fluid retention in the body."
• Rhymes for retention
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French retention, from Latin retentionem ('a holding back'), a noun of action from the past participle stem of retinere, composed of re- ('back') and tenere ('to hold').