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Narrator: Today's word is "Retention" — noun, pronounced /rɪˈtenʃn/, with the stress on "ten".
Narrator: Retention is the act of keeping something, or of continuing to have it.
Narrator: In plain English, it means keeping hold.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin retentio, a holding back.
Narrator: A common collocation is "customer retention", which describes keeping customers coming back.
Narrator: It differs from "acquisition", because acquisition gains new customers, while retention keeps existing ones.
Narrator: In a second sense, water retention is when the body holds too much fluid.
Narrator: Business, HR, education and medicine all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: retention is keeping what you have.
Speaker A: Why does the app send me so many emails?
Speaker B: For RETENTION! It comes from Latin for holding back.
Speaker A: To keep me using it?
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Staff retention has improved", HR. "Data retention rules apply", compliance. "Salt can cause water retention", health.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it with "-tion", "retention", not "retension".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Keeping is its cousin, preservation its twin, and loyalty an alternative — yet retention keeps its loyal charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "retention" in AI prompts — useful for product analytics and compliance.
Speaker A: How for analytics?
Speaker B: Build cohorts.
Prompt: Build a monthly retention cohort table from this user sign-up and login data.
Speaker A: And compliance?
Speaker B: Set periods.
Prompt: Draft a data retention schedule for customer, payroll and marketing data.
Speaker A: Could it help product?
Speaker B: Yes, for features.
Prompt: Suggest three features that would improve thirty-day retention for a fitness app.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Logs.
Prompt: Configure a log retention policy that deletes logs older than ninety days.
Retention — meaning in Arabic & definition More R courses GL Dictionary