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RETENTION RATE

Specialty Definition: RETENTION RATE

DomainDefinition

Business

The percentage of present earnings held back or retained by a corporation. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: RETENTION RATE

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

South Africa

Though the benefit has been severely diluted in recent years due to high domestic inflation, a fixed official exchange rate and a higher retention rate of foreign currency inflows by the Government (in June 2001 the Reserve Bank increased it holdback of all foreign currency inflows form 25 to 40 percent), industries and companies earning at least a quarter of their income in foreign exchange are generally in a much better position to stay afloat and grow. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RETENTION RATE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

retention rate

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: RETENTION RATE

Language Translations for "RETENTION RATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

tilbageholdt overskud (earned surplus, profits retained, retained earnings, retained income, retained profits, unappropriated earned surplus, unappropriated earnings, undistributed earnings, undistributed profits), procentsats for tilbageholdt overskud. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

inhoudingsverhouding. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yrityksessä pidätetyn voiton osuus tuloksesta, osinkoina jakamattoman voiton osuus tuloksesta. (various references)

   

German

  

Selbstfinanzierungsrate. (various references)

   

Italian

  

saggio di utili non distribuiti. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etentionray ateray

   

Spanish

  

tasa de acumulación de capital. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RETENTION RATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-r-t-t-t"

-2 letters: entertainer, reorientate.

-3 letters: intenerate.

-4 letters: attention, entertain, entrainer, orientate, orienteer, reentrant, reiterate, retention, trattorie.

-5 letters: anointer, anterior, inerrant, internee, intonate, intranet, nitrator, rattener, reanoint, renitent, reorient, retainer, retinene, retirant, rottener, tenorite, titrator, titterer, totterer.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-r-t-t-t"
 

+3 letters: interpenetration, reinterpretation.

 

+4 letters: interpenetrations, reinterpretations.

 

+5 letters: overinterpretation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: RETENTION RATE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 54 45 4E 54 49 4F 4E      52 41 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01010100 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 00100000 01010010 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#32 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0054 0045 004E 0054 0049 004F 004E      0052 0041 0054 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

523954394854434948252355439

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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