retrieval

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
retrieve/rɪˈtriːv/

▶verb

• 1 get or bring back.

  ■ (of a dog) find and bring back (game that has been shot).

• 2 put right or improve (an unwelcome situation).

• 3 find or extract (information stored in a computer).

▶noun an act of retrieving.

– derivatives
retrievability noun,
retrievable adjective,
retrieval noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. retroeve-, stressed stem of retrover ‘find again’.