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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | custody |
| Synonyms: | confinement, detainment, detention, holding, reservation, withholding |
| Main Entry: | retention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | keeping |
| Synonyms: | holding, memory, recall, recognition, recollection, remembering |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Retention. |
| Category: | 1. Property in general |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
retention; retaining; keep, detention, custody; tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip., fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum; bond (vinculum)., clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice., paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf, neif., bird in hand; captive.
-verbs
retain, keep; hold fast one's own, hold tight one's own, hold fast one's ground, hold tight one's ground; clinch, clench, clutch, grasp, gripe, hug, have a firm hold of., secure, withhold, detain; hold back, keep back; keep close; husband (store); reserve; have in stock, keep in stock (possess) [more]; entail, tie up, settle.
-adjectives
retaining; retentive, tenacious., unforfeited, undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated., incommunicable, inalienable; in mortmain; in strict settlement.
-phrases
uti possidetis.
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| Antonyms: | relinquishment, loss |
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| Main Entry: | absorption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assimilation, incorporation |
| Synonyms: | consumption, digestion, drinking in, exhaustion, fusion, imbibing, impregnation, ingestion, inhalation, intake, osmosis, penetration, reception, retention, saturation, soaking up, suction, taking in |
| Main Entry: | capacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | volume; limit of volume held |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, amplitude, bulk, burden, compass, contents, dimensions, expanse, extent, full, holding ability, holding power, latitude, magnitude, mass, measure, proportions, quantity, range, reach, retention, room, scope, size, space, spread, standing room only, sufficiency, sweep |
| Notes: | applied to a person, ability and capacity mean about the same thing but are grammatically different: an ability to do something, a capacity for doing something; ability is qualitative while capacity is quantitative capacity refers to a general ability to comprehend an issue or perform a task; capability implies a reference to one of a set of such abilities |
| Main Entry: | detention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confinement, imprisonment |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, arrest, arrestation, bust, custody, delay, detainment, hindrance, holding back, holding pen, immurement, impediment, incarceration, internment, keeping in, nab, pen*, pickup, pinch*, quarantine, restraint, retention, time up the river, withholding |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberation, release |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grasp, possession |
| Synonyms: | authority, clasp, clench, clinch, clout, clutch, control, dominance, dominion, grip, influence, occupancy, occupation, ownership, pull, purchase, retention, sway, tenacity, tenure |
| Antonyms: | dispossession, release |
| Main Entry: | memory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to hold in the mind |
| Synonyms: | anamnesis, awareness, camera-eye, cognizance, consciousness, dead-eye, flashback, memorization, mind, mind's eye, mindfulness, recall, recapture, recognition, recollection, reflection, remembrance, reminiscence, retention, retentiveness, retrospection, subconsciousness, thought |
| Antonyms: | amnesia, forgetfulness, ignorance |
| Main Entry: | occupancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | residence of place |
| Synonyms: | control, deed, habitation, holding, inhabitance, inhabitancy, occupation, ownership, possession, retention, settlement, tenancy, tenure, term, title, use |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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