| 词汇 | retention |
| 释义 | retention noun[ U ] formaluk /rɪˈten.ʃən/ us /rɪˈten.ʃən/ C2 the continued use, existence, or possession of something or someone: 保留;保持;维持 Two influential senators have argued for the retention of the unpopular tax.两位有影响的参议员主张保留这项不得人心的税收。 The retention of old technology has slowed the company's growth.死守着旧技术不放减缓了这家公司的发展。 water/heat retention水分保持／热量滞留 Keeping and storing things appropriate aside bank bogart buffer capacitance cling dump husband keep (something/someone) back kept lay something aside lay something down lodge standby stash stockpile stockpiling storage trap retention | American Dictionaryretention noun[ U ] us/rɪˈten·ʃən/ the ability to keep or continue having something: Officials are focusing on job creation, not job retention. retentiveadjectiveus/rɪˈten·tɪv/ a retentive memory retention | Business Englishretention noun uk /rɪˈtenʃən/us [ U ] HR, WORKPLACE the ability of a company to keep its employees and stop them from going to work somewhere else: The study found that mentoring programs have a positive impact on teachers and their retention. Health benefits are an important recruitment and retention tool. Both these organizations have improved staff retention by paying great attention to office design. Employee retention is one of the major issues confronting business today. COMMERCE the ability of a company to keep its customers, rather than losing them to competitors: Revenue growth, in turn, is achieved by pursuing growing market segments, by finding new customers, and by improving the retention of existing customers. customer/client retentionCustomer retention is the key to profitable growth. The unit has a client retention rate of 85%. [ C ] ACCOUNTING an amount of money that is owed to someone for doing work but that is not paid until the work has been completed in a satisfactory way: If a withheld retention is disputed, the contractor is generally entitled to adjudication. [ U ] the continued use or possession of something or someone: The city has traditionally favoured the retention of space for business and employment uses, but some residences are now being built. The company denied that there were any problems with its document retention procedures. Examples of retentionretention However, the activation of semantic representations necessary for the retention of meaning will continue to be sustained in the postsentence retention interval. Problems in recruitment and retention are exacerbated by reports of low morale throughout the profession. In other words, visuo-spatial and verbal short-term retention systems use the same underlying mechanisms. At best, turnover rates better represent trends over time and must be used with other sources, ranging from managerial testimony to rates of worker retention. This mechanism controls activation in the retention systems and also makes working memory available for goal directed actions. Specifically, for the moderate declining group, we found evidence that grade retention aggravated classroom physical aggression, but only when it occurred prior to age 13. Studies on delayed dream recall and long-term retention of pre-sleep stimuli indicate that sleep may have a positive role in the consolidation of information. These results are an example of encoding and subsequent retention operations involving the same brain region. Bureaucratic autonomy was ensured in the first decades of independence, by the retention of expatriate senior civil servants. Moreover, retention rates in the eight chambers in states without the ballot reform are not statistically different from those that adopted the reform. Evaluating storage, retention, and retrieval in disordered memory and learning. The results also revealed a sustained negative impact on later disruptive behavior that persisted long after the occurrence of grade retention. We found short-lived negative prospective associations between grade retention and girls' disruptive behavior beyond its natural persistence. These include: (1) interference with water uptake; (2) mechanical constraints; (3) interference with gas exchange; (4) retention of inhibitors; and (5) inhibitor production. There was also no support for hypothesis (3): any method for creating meaningful associations will help vocabulary retention. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withretentionretentionThese are words often used in combination with retention. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. better retention Each on its own however was less successful in promoting lexical retention after five weeks, though the two combined did promote somewhat betterretention. employee retention This is a modern substitute for employeeretention. grade retention Specifically, for the moderate declining group, we found evidence that graderetention aggravated classroom physical aggression, but only when it occurred prior to age 13. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with retention |
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