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retention   (TTS Sound)

The noun retention has 3 senses

• retention, keeping, holding -- (the act of retaining something)


• memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity -- (the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger")


• retentiveness, retentivity, retention -- (the power of retaining liquid; "moisture retentivity of soil")