Retain in a sentence as a verb

Pay top dollar to retain and recruit talent.

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The company chose to include that clause in the contract in order to retain the best and the brightest people to build great products.

Here lies a Lisper / Uninterned from this mortal package / Yet not gc'd / While we retain pointers to his memory

If the water pressure is turned off, the pipe will retain it most recent diameter until the water is turned back on.

Which is why in addition to getting higher valuations, founders are increasingly able to retain board control.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

You retain virtually complete control of the timing and terms of your future funding choices without needing investor approval to make the choices as you like.

Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverage.

On one hand, Obama wants to retain support from the folks who elected him to dismantle these abuses, so he sets up an "advisory board" to "investigate" the reports.

Fitzgerald said "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

* The API designer needed to retain backwards compatibility so it had to resort to putting 3rd party app specific code in the API implementation.

I'm glad to hear that anyone at Zynga is meritocratically given a chance to lead, rather than it being based on how early someone got in. Looking forward to hearing more about the process that will be used to determine whether Pincus should stay on and retain his shares, or whether he should be replaced with a different leader.

Normally you can't dry out a gel and have it retain its shape because the liquid/gas interface during evaporation/boiling has enough surface tension to tear apart the microstructure of the gel.

A few thoughts as someone who has developed games for iOS, Android, and the web:In today's world, if you want to retain implicit ownership of your product's name, a simultaneous triple-platform release is not optional, it is required.

The idea is that, in a free economy, as a matter of policy, it is better for parties to retain freedom in defining the work requirements of a position than for the government to dictate protective rules where the parties are not deemed in need of protection.

Now, if youre not from the USA, I can already hear you objecting that its impractical to drive a small fleet of ocean-going vessels on suburban streets, or that its wasteful to retain a staff of thousands just to make the daily commute, or that its not all that great, environment-wise, to knock over city blocks every time I make a Starbucks run.

Retain definitions

verb

hold back within; "This soil retains water"; "I retain this drug for a long time"; "the dam retains the water"

verb

allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings"

See also: continue keep

verb

secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"

See also: hold

verb

keep in one's mind; "I cannot retain so much information"