Retention
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Retention can have the following meanings:
- Instance of retaining (e.g. water in the ground; see retention pond or retention basin)
- In learning: the ability to retain facts and figures in memory (spaced repetition)
- In schools, keeping a student in the same grade for another year (that is, not promoting the student to the next higher grade with his/her classmates) (see Grade retention and social promotion)
- In usenet, the retention period is the time a news server holds a newsgroup posting before deleting it as no longer relevant. For practical reasons, most news servers have different categories for different classes of postings: for example, the "announce" newsgroup for the ISP or other agency providing the news server may retain postings either for a very long time or indefinitely, whereas postings in binary newsgroups are usually not retained for long due to the storage requirements involved.
- In the United States court system, judicial retention is a process whereby a judge is periodically subject to a vote in order to remain in the position of judge.
- In organizations, keeping personnel within the organization from departing.
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