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Retentivity

The power of retaining retentive force as the retentivity of a magnet...

Retention

Retention, in Scots law, the right of withholding a debt or retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right of retention shall be paid; a lien....

retention

retention 1 : the act of retaining or the state of being retained 2 : the portion of the insurance on a particular risk not reinsured or ceded by the originating insurer ...

Retentive

Having power to retain as a retentive memory...

The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law in virtue of the following constitutional provision Const Art I sec 7 cl 2 ldquoIf any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days Sundays excepted after it shall have been presented to him the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return in which case it shall not be a lawrdquo Also an analogous retention of a bill by a State governor...

To possess or to retain

To possess or to retain, means to possess or to retain in physical form and the words 'possession' or 'retention' shall be construed accordingly. [Foreign Exchange Management (Possession and Retention of Foreign Currency) Regulations, 2000, Reg. 2 (ii)]To provide for regulating or prohibiting production supply and distribution, the power to 'provide for regulating or prohibiting production, supply and distribution' conferred by the Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act, 1946 on the Central Government included the power to regulate or prohibit by issuing directions to a particular producer or dealer or by requiring any specific act to be done or forborne in regard to production, Santosh Kumar Jain v. State, AIR 1951 SC 201: (1951) SCR 303....

open shop

open shop : an establishment in which eligibility for employment and retention on the payroll are not determined by membership or nonmembership in a labor union though there may be an agreement by which a union is recognized as sole bargaining agent called also merit shop compare agency shop, closed shop, union shop ...

Chalazion

A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands...

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