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Retention can have the following meanings:

#Instance 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 marketing & sales terminology : Sales retention is the department or the action needed to retain the current customers, subscribers.
#In 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.