Retention cost The amount of money a company has to spend in a given period to retain an existing customer.

在给定时期内公司为保留现有顾客所花费的金钱。

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We saved the cost of creating soil retention walls around the site.

我们节省了在基地周围建立土壤挡水墙的成本。

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Thus, to meet the regulatory requirements for data retention with minimum expenditure, the organizations are trying to store more amount of data at the lowest possible cost.

因此，为了能以最小的代价满足保存数据的规定要求，这些组织都试着以最低的成本保留最多的数据。

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These innovations could lead to entirely new markets and platforms for growth in the economy, increase U.S. competitiveness, catalyze the creation and retention of U.S. jobs, enable cost-effective renewable clean energy, enhance national security, and help support affordable health care and improved quality of life for our citizens.

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The leading companies we are talking to in both the developed and emerging markets are working out how to balance the need of maintaining their current legacy businesses through cost reduction, operational excellence and customer retention with placing the right bets on this longer-term world of change and opportunity.

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