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Retailo
Retailo is a B2B e-commerce and digital distribution marketplace headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, founded in July 2020 by three former Careem executives to supply small grocery shops and restaurants.
Retained earnings
Retained earnings, also called undistributed profits or plowback, are the cumulative net income a corporation keeps rather than pays as dividends; a negative balance is an accumulated deficit.
Retainer agreement
Retainer agreement, also called representation agreement: a lawyer-client compensation contract for reserving availability or future services. Covers general, security, and advance fee retainers, trust account rules, and nonrefundable fee limits.
Retard (pejorative)
Retard (pejorative), the R-word: an English slur for people with intellectual disability, derived from Latin retardare "to slow"; noun recorded 1788, slur sense 1970, retired from US federal law by Rosa's Law in 2010.
Retention election
Retention election: unopposed yes-or-no ballot vote on whether a sitting judge keeps a judicial seat, used in about 19 US states, usually after merit selection; also called the Missouri Plan retention step.
Rethink Education
Rethink Education is the education-technology venture capital practice of Rethink Capital Partners, founded by Matthew Greenfield in 2012 in White Plains, New York, with roughly $262M raised across four funds.
Rethink Impact
Rethink Impact is a New York-based impact venture capital firm founded by Jenny Abramson in 2015, investing in female and non-binary leaders in health, education, and sustainability.
Rethmann family
The Rethmann family is a German business family that wholly owns Rethmann SE & Co. KG in Selm, with recycling, logistics, animal by-products, and mobility divisions.
Retief party massacre
The Retief party massacre (Ukubulwa kweVuzani) was the killing of Voortrekker leader Piet Retief and about 100 companions at the Zulu royal stronghold uMgungundlovu in 1838.
Retief–Dingane treaty
The Retief–Dingane treaty is an 1838 deed recording Zulu king Dingane's cession of Natal to Piet Retief and his Voortrekkers, who were killed days later.
Retired emperor institution
The retired emperor institution (Thái thượng hoàng) was the Vietnamese practice of an abdicated emperor governing alongside his son; the Tran dynasty kept it from start to end.
Retirement
Retirement: exit from the workforce, institutionalized through pensions from Bismarck's 1889 German system and the 1935 U.S. Social Security Act to today's rising OECD retirement ages, health effects, and phased transitions.
Retirement age
Retirement age, also called full retirement age, is the age at which a pension system makes benefits available, averaging 64.7 years for men across the OECD in 2024.
Retirement home
Retirement home, also called senior living or old age home, is residential housing for older adults with services from independent living through assisted living to nursing care; shaped by the 1935 Social Security Act, 1965 Medicare/Medicaid, and 1987 reform law.
Retreat of Taharqa to Kush
The retreat of Taharqa to Kush was the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa's withdrawal from Egypt to Napata after defeat by Ashurbanipal's Assyrians in 667 BC, ending Kushite rule in Egypt.
Retreat of the Republic of China government to Taiwan
The retreat of the Republic of China government to Taiwan (国府迁台) moved the Nationalist government and about a million people from mainland China to Taiwan in 1949.
Retrenchment and Austerity of 1988–1991
The Retrenchment and Austerity of 1988–1991, known in Chinese as governance and rectification (治理整顿), was a Chinese austerity program that curbed inflation and fixed-asset investment through administrative controls.
Retributive justice
Retributive justice, or retributivism, is a punishment theory holding that wrongdoers deserve proportionate punishment and that inflicting it is intrinsically good; associated with Kant and Hegel, distinguished from revenge, and opposed to consequentialist deterrence theories.
Retrieval practice
Retrieval practice, known in research as the testing effect, is a learning technique in which actively recalling material strengthens long-term retention more than an equal amount of rereading.
Retrocausality
Retrocausality, or backward causation, is the idea that an effect can temporally precede its cause. Known from the Dummett–Flew debate, Black's bilking argument, and retrocausal interpretations of quantum mechanics such as the transactional interpretation.
Retrocession of Taiwan (台湾光复)
Retrocession of Taiwan (台湾光复): the 25 October 1945 transfer of Taiwan from Japanese rule to Republic of China administration, when Chen Yi accepted the Japanese surrender in Taipei; its legal status and commemoration remain contested.
Retronym
Retronym: a new word coined for an older thing after a newer version appears, e.g. acoustic guitar, analog watch, snail mail. Coined by Frank Mankiewicz (1980) and popularized by William Safire; paired term: neonym.
Retrospective think-aloud
Retrospective think-aloud, also called retrospective protocol, is a verbal protocol method in which a participant works silently, then verbalizes thoughts while reviewing a replay of the session.
Rettendon murders
Rettendon murders (Essex Boys, Range Rover murders): Tucker, Tate and Rolfe shot dead in a Range Rover at Rettendon, Essex, 6 December 1995; Steele and Whomes convicted in 1998 on supergrass Nicholls's evidence, still disputed.
Return of Meltage Fees to the Public Coffers (Haoxian Guigong)
Return of Meltage Fees to the Public Coffers (耗羡归公) was a Qing dynasty fiscal reform, first adopted in Shanxi under the Yongzheng Emperor, that fixed the meltage-fee surtax.
Return of the Chinese Eastern Railway
Return of the Chinese Eastern Railway (中国长春铁路): the gratis Soviet transfer of the jointly administered Chinese Changchun Railway and all its property to the PRC, completed in Harbin on December 31, 1952 under the February 14, 1950 Sino-Soviet agreement.
Return of the standards of Crassus
The return of the standards of Crassus was a 20 BC settlement in which Phraates IV of Parthia handed back to Augustus standards lost at Carrhae and by Antony.
Return of Zimri-Lim to Mari
The return of Zimri-Lim to Mari was the exiled prince's recovery of Mari around 1776 BC, ending Assyrian rule and restoring the Lim dynasty to power.
Return on assets
Return on assets (ROA) is a profitability ratio relating a company's earnings to its total assets, most often net income divided by average total assets.
Return on capital employed
Return on capital employed (ROCE) is a profitability ratio that divides a company's operating profit, usually EBIT, by its capital employed, taken as total assets minus current liabilities.