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persistencies

persistencies is the plural of persistency.

Meaning of persistency

Noun

persistency (countable and uncountable, plural persistencies)

  1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being persistent.
    • By this hand thou, thinkeſt me as farre in the diuels booke, as thou and Falſtaffe, for obduracie and perſiſtancie, let the end trie the man, [...]c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...
  2. (countable) A measure of how much something persists.
    • The table shows that three-year "persistencies" range from 89.6 per cent with Standard Life (this means only 10 per cent of plans have lapsed after three years) to 58.9 per cent with Sun Life (almost 40 per cent of plans lapse after three years).1998 March 28, John Chapman, “Pensions Investigated”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 06 Jul 2014

Questions about persistencies

What is persistencies the plural of?
Persistencies is the plural of persistency.

Words near persistencies in the dictionary

  1. persistence
  2. persistence hunter
  3. persistence hunters
  4. persistence hunting
  5. persistences
  6. persistencies
  7. persistency
  8. persistent
  9. persistent adrenarche syndrome
  10. persistent cloaca
  11. persistent complex bereavement disorder

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