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persistency (countable and uncountable, plural persistencies)

  1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being persistent.
  2. (countable) A measure of how much something persists.
    • 1998 March 28, John Chapman, “Pensions Investigated”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 6 July 2014:
      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).

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