Retention is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETENTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of retaining
• the continued possession, use, or control of something
• the action of absorbing and continuing to hold a substance
• failure to eliminate a substance from the body
• The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.
• The power of retaining; retentiveness.
• That which contains something, as a tablet; a //// of preserving impressions.
• The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.
• Place of custody or confinement.
• The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien.
• the act of retaining something
• the power of retaining and recalling past experience
• the power of retaining liquid
• retaining
• the fact of keeping something in one's memory
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of retaining; the state of being retained; abnormal retaining of a fluid or secretion in a body cavity

Words related to RETENTION

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Words that contain RETENTION

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How to use RETENTION in a sentence

• The choice and retention of a body-guard of Blacks by the Moorish Emperor, also triumphantly prove the martial nature of the negro race.
• Unlawful means whatever renders such association of rational beings impossible, as the violation of promises or the taking away and retention of the property of others.
• The connection and graded fusion of representations is the basis of their retention and reproduction, as well as of the formation of continuous series of representations.
• The insurgents set up Mahmud Shevket Pasha as Grand Vizier and made the retention of Adrianople their cardinal policy.
• Besides, all bets assume a retention of reasons, otherwise there could be no bets.
• On the other hand, the retention of its position, and much more any further advance, depended upon continuing to receive supplies by way of the sea.
• Some people have an amazing power of absorption and retention of this magnetism.
• Again, in low conditions of health and an imperfect power of contraction, we have causes for retention.
• Some of us had a robust power of attention and retention, and managed these reproductions with tolerable fidelity.
• His retention in the prison in these barracks is not deemed desirable.
• And the Hardy house was naturally the pivot of the movement, and the retention of it in our possession essential to success.
• Young teachers, anxiously awaiting promotion, sometimes foolishly resist the appointment or retention of married women.
• Through the retention and succession of sensations, agreeable as well as disagreeable, there arises the desire of clinging.
• THIRD ACT While Fernando storms over the retention of Carlos, Paquita sadly broods over her love for Christopher.
• Whatever other conclusion may be reached, the American people must first pass, either tacitly or explicitly, on retention or independence.
• Honore Grandissime to advise with him concerning the retention of the born artist as a drug-clerk.
• The first factor, power of retention, is the most fundamental and to some extent limits the usefulness of the other two.
• So in the primary grades we begin to require children to organize, and as adults we do all we can to make the power of retention operate at its maximum.
• The forced retention in office of a single dishonest person may work great injury to the public interests.
• The excess weight is probably due to a retention of water, and will not be permanent.
• Another speaker advocated the retention of the condemned as ornaments of the state, but he was very speedily overruled.
• Their retention and accumulation would soon produce death.
• A great deal has been said and written both for and against the retention of this form of punishment.

Similar words containing TEN without suffix tion and without prefix re

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