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Cart abandonment rate
CART ah-BAN-dun-mint RATE
noun

The ratio of the number of abandoned shopping carts to the number of initiated transactions or completed transactions. Abandonment occurs when a potential customer drops out of the online checkout order process before completing the purchase.

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