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[ verb ] fight to a stand-off, as in sports

Examples

: "Dallas had enough of a lead to hold the Broncos back"

Used in print

(The Detroit News,...)

The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April , which , we trust , is not symptomatic_of the methods to be invoked in holding_off the felonious Khrushchev .

Related terms

resist

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[ verb ] wait before acting

Synonyms

wait hold_back

Related terms

act delay hold_out delay

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