HOLDBACK

Definitions: HOLDBACK

HOLDBACK

Noun

1. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used.

2. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: HOLDBACK

Economic History

Zimbabwe

Mining operations that produce other commodity minerals that are fully exported, such as chromium or asbestos, will suffer a blow from the Reserve Bank's announcement in June 2001 that it is increasing its hard currency holdback of export proceeds from 25 to 40 percent. (references)

South Africa

Though the benefit has been severely diluted in recent years due to high domestic inflation, a fixed official exchange rate and a higher retention rate of foreign currency inflows by the Government (in June 2001 the Reserve Bank increased it holdback of all foreign currency inflows form 25 to 40 percent), industries and companies earning at least a quarter of their income in foreign exchange are generally in a much better position to stay afloat and grow. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

pengim (delay, hindrance, inhibition, interruption, obstruction, occlusion, preclusion, stumble), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, liability, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse, trip up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏العائق (delphinium, obstacle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спиране (arrest, blocking, braking, catch, cease, cessation, discontinuance, dwell, halt, hold up, interruption, letup, prevention, retention, snub, stand, standstill, stay, stop, stopping, tie up), задръжка (inhibition, interruption), пречка (bit, block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, embarrassment, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, remora, rub, setback, spoke, stay, stop, stumbling-stone, traverse). (various references)

Czech

překážka (balk, bar, barrier, blockage, fence, hamper, hazard, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, jump, obstacle, obstruction, resistance, restriction, roadblock, rub, snag, trig). (various references)

French

obstacle. (various references)

Italian

ostacolo (balk, barrier, check, clog, difficulty, drag, drawback, fence, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, jump, obstacle, obstruction, screen, setback, snag, stumbling block, wattle), impedimento (check, clog, determent, drag, encumbrance, escapement, handicap, hindrance, hitch, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, preventative, prevention, stumbling block). (various references)

Pig Latin

oldbackhay

Portuguese

roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle funds, extort money, faked, file, grab-all, kidnapper, loot, lurcher, make away with oneself, nab, picayune, pick, piratical, plunder, priggish, purloin, rifle, Rob, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snitch, snoop, steal, strip, swipe, take away, thieve), dificuldade (ado, awkwardness, check, checkout, complicacy, cramp, crux, deterrent, difficulty, distress, embassy, encumbrance, fix, handicap, hardness, hardship, hindrance, hitch, hobble, impediment, intricacy, knot, let, matter, mess, need, niche, Nodus, obstacle, obstruction, plummet, quagmire, Ravel, rub, scrape, stress, trammels, trouble). (various references)

Russian 

задержка (backoff, backset, back-set, check, delay, detention, foot-dragging, hitch, holdup, impediment, lag, lagging, lateness, retardation, retardment, set back, setback, suppression, throwback, time-delay, time-lag), препятствие (balk, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, discouragement, disincentive, drawback, encumbrance, hedge, hurdle, impediment, leap, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pull back, setback, traverse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prepreka (ado, balk, bar, barrage, barrier, baulk, difficulty, drag, drawback, hang up, hindrance, hurdle, impeachment, impediment, liability, obstacle, obstruction, set back, setback, snag, static, trammel, traverse). (various references)

Swedish

hinder (balk, bar, block, check, cumber, curb, disqualification, drag, embargo, embarrassment, encumbrance, entanglement, fence, gorge, hazard, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, interference, object, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, stymie, trammel). (various references)

Turkish

engel (balk, bar, barrage, barricade, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, countercheck, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, dam, determent, difficulty, discouragement, disincentive, drag, drawback, encumbrance, entanglement, fence, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hobble, hold up, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, retardation, rub, shackles, slashing, snag, stay, stick, stop, stumbling block, supersedeas, tie, trammel). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự ngăn trở (impediment, prevention), sự cản trở (baffle, check, countercherk, delay, encumbrance, hardihood, incumbrance, let). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "HOLDBACK": holdbacks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"HOLDBACK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: holbaek, holbech. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: acold, ahold, black, block, chalk, cloak, dobla, loach.

-4 letters: bach, back, bald, balk, blah, bloc, bock, bola, bold, calk, calo, chad, chao, clad, clod, coal, coda, cola, cold, dahl, dhak, dhal, dock, hack, halo, hock, hold, holk, kohl, kola, lack, lakh, load, loca, loch, lock.

-5 letters: abo, ado, alb, bad, bah, bal, boa.

+1 letter: blockhead, holdbacks.

+2 letters: blockheads, chalkboard.

+3 letters: chalkboards.

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