Usually means: Withdrawal of a previously stated claim.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. retraction: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. retraction: Merriam-Webster
  3. retraction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. retraction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. retraction: Collins English Dictionary
  6. retraction: Vocabulary.com
  7. Retraction, retraction: Wordnik
  8. retraction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. retraction: Wiktionary
  10. retraction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. retraction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. retraction: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. retraction: Dictionary.com
  14. retraction: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Retraction (category theory), Retraction (disambiguation), Retraction (kinesiology), Retraction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Retraction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. retraction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. retraction: Rhymezone
  19. Retraction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. retraction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. retraction: FreeDictionary.org
  22. retraction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. retraction: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. retraction: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. retraction: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. retraction: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. retraction: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retraction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. retraction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. retraction: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Retraction: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. retraction, retraction, retraction: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An act or instance of retracting.
noun:  A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
noun:  (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.

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