retentions
Acts of keeping
Retentions are things kept or held back.
In business, customer retention measures how many customers stay rather than leave.
Employee retention tracks staff turnover.
In construction, a retention is money withheld from a contractor until work is satisfactorily completed.
Medical contexts use retention for fluid or waste the body fails to expel: water retention, urinary retention.
Protective care or control
- holdingMaintaining physical possession
- arrestSeize by law
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
property · documents · records · confiscation · police · criminal · pretrial · asylum
Gaining knowledge gradually
- recallMemory retrieval act
- informationKnowledge about something
- knowledgeUnderstood facts and skills
- long-termLasting extended period
short-term · storage · encoding · retrieval · cognitive · spaced · repetition · forgetting
Buyer of goods
- employeeHired organizational member
- churnAgitate cream into butter
- loyaltyFaithful commitment to another
- rateMeasured speed or charge
turnover · engagement · attrition · talent · workforce · subscription · membership · renewal
custody
Protective care or control
seizure · property · documents · records · confiscation · police · criminal · pretrial · asylum · immigration
learning
Gaining knowledge gradually
- recallMemory retrieval act
- informationKnowledge about something
- knowledgeUnderstood facts and skills
long-term · short-term · storage · encoding · retrieval · cognitive · spaced · repetition · forgetting · study
customer
Buyer of goods
- employeeHired organizational member
- churnAgitate cream into butter
- loyaltyFaithful commitment to another
rate · turnover · engagement · attrition · talent · workforce · subscription · membership · renewal · acquisition
fluid
Substance that flows
edema · swelling · kidney · sodium · bloating · diuretic · urine · postoperative · acute · chronic
orthodontic
Relating to teeth straightening
- bracesDental alignment devices
- retainerUpfront professional fee
- teethEnamel-covered chewing structures
alignment · appliance · removable · fixed · wire · bonded · fitting · wearing · adjustment · compliance
retentionsreleases
Lets go or publishes
relinquishments · surrenders · forfeitures · abandonments · losses
retentionsdisposals
Acts of eliminating something
expulsions · eliminations · removals · discards · excretions
retentionsterminations
Acts of bringing closure
layoffs · firings · dismissals · redundancies · separations
- student retentionContinued enrollment over time
- water retentionBody storing excess fluid
- fluid retentionAbnormal water accumulation in tissues
- memory retentionCapacity to preserve learned information
- retention bonusPayment to keep employees
- teacher retentionKeeping instructors employed long-term