"retain the value" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of keeping something of worth. For example, "By investing in a steady portfolio, you can retain the value of your money."
Under the old rule, passengers could retain the value of their nonrefundable ticket for a year even if they did not call in to cancel a flight.
However, if people choose to buy the housing right now, they will retain the value of their asset if the growth of the price in higher than that of inflation rate.
"Every time we had actors outside, doing the chores, plowing or training the horse," he said, "I was using a tremendous amount of light on them because I wanted to retain the value of the sky.
We can be pretty sure that a dollar is worth more to someone who earns $30,000 per year than to someone who earns $3 million.Mr Mankiw's preferred alternative is a "just deserts" theory, in which people should retain the value of their labour beyond whatever is needed to provide public goods and compensate for externalities and market failures.
Retailers are struggling to retain the value of their individual brands in a world with increased transparency, but again this is nothing new — simply a rehashing of battles from the early days of eCommerce.
Moreover, for the threshold of acceptance of the Cronbach coefficient, as specified in the previous section, for the exploratory nature of the research, we retain the value of 0.55 as the minimum threshold of significance.
"For me [the attraction], is to defend the principles of this great club, offensive football with tactical discipline, and to retain the values of the club.
It is suggested that a function or a subroutine should retain the values in R4 through R11.
"Banks were closed to new lending, and private investors were inclined to focus on turnover and profits at the expense of all else, whereas we wanted to retain the values we had based the brand on," he explains.
Passive tags require nonvolatile memories that retain the values stored even when the device is not powered, which is typically less than 200 bytes (Ahson and Ilyas 2008).
A more common approach has been to retain the values that underpin informed consent, such as autonomy and self-determination, but to use other mechanisms to give voice to them.
