See Also: investments(medicine)
INVESTMENTS(finance)
BNN Investments(finance)
UBA INVESTMENTS(finance)
Investments(money)
Legal investments(money)
Cash investments(money)
WCP Diversified Investments Ltd(finance)
MICC Investments(finance)
Cash investments(finance)

retention (iou) and investments (medicine)


retention (iou)



retention noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin retentio(n-), from retent- pa. ppl stem of retinere: see RETAIN, -ION.]
Power to retain something; capacity for holding or keeping something. LME.
J. Badcock Its ready absorption and retention of water.
Medicine. Failure to eliminate secreted or excreted matter (esp. urine) from the body; an instance of this. LME.
a. The fact of keeping or bearing a thing in mind; the ability to do this; memory; esp. in Psychology, the faculty of retaining specific previously learned tasks or information in the memory (freq. distinguished from encoding and retrieval). LME.
b. The fact of maintaining, keeping up, or continuing to use something. E17.
B. Moore Your congregation might..be served by retention of the Latin Mass.
c. In phenomenology, the continued consciousness of or existence in the present of a previous act or event. M20.
The action or fact of keeping a thing in one's own possession or control. M16.
J. R. Green The House..insisted on the retention of its power. H. Williamson Two copies..will be sent.., one for your retention.
b. Something that is kept back or retained. E20.
Daily Mail Ilderton..looked a cheap retention at 100 gs.
The action or fact of holding a thing fast or keeping a thing fixed in a place or position; the fact or condition of being kept, or of remaining, in place. Formerly also, detention of a person by forcible or Other means. L16.
J. Tyndall A northern aspect..causes..the retention of the snow.
b. Self-restraint, control. Formerly also, (a) restraint, (a) check. rare. E17.
W. Gifford The retention with which he speaks of them..is to be admired.
Comb.: retention money: withheld for an agreed period by a purchaser or contractee as Security against the failure to fulfil a contract.
retentional adjective of or pertaining to retention M20.
retentionist noun & adjective (a) noun a person who advocates the retention of something; esp. an advocate of the retention of capital punishment; (b) adjective of or pertaining to retentionists: L19.

investments (medicine)


investments
Use for articles on the Investing of funds for income or profit.