All 3 Uses
retention
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
(Edited)
- Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
p. 183.4 *retention = keeping
- Louie ate voraciously, got stronger, and expanded exponentially, his face and body bloating from water retention.
p. 317.2retention = being held in the body
- But thanks to dramatic water retention, it was a doughy, moon-faced, muscleless weight.
p. 323.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(retention) to keep, hold, or remember somethingThe exact meaning of retention depends upon its context. For example:
- a student's retention -- what a student remembers (holds onto in memory)
- freshman retention -- the number of freshman who return to the school the next year
- employee retention -- how successful a firm is at keeping employees over the long term
- water retention -- the holding of water in the body -- as in "a salt-free diet to reduce water retention"
- retention bonus -- a cash bonus paid to encourage a good employee to stay with a firm
- retention basin -- a ponding area -- typically intended to hold stormwater
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)