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Withdrawal vs Retrieval - What's the difference?

withdrawal | retrieval |

As nouns the difference between withdrawal and retrieval

is that withdrawal is receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them usually refers to money while retrieval is the act of retrieving or something retrieved.

withdrawal

Noun

(en noun)
  • Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
  • A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
  • A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is addicted is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier
  • heroin withdrawal
    nicotine withdrawal
  • An act of withdrawing.
  • Antonyms

    * (sense, receiving from someone's care) deposit

    retrieval

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of retrieving or something retrieved
  • (computing) the operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device
  • the cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness