Hold Over

Definitions: Hold Over

Hold Over

Verb

1. Intimidate somebody (with a threat); "She was holding it over him".

2. Hold over goods to be sold for the next season.

3. Hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Hold Over

Crosswords: Hold Over

You know you've got a hold over me (I Get Weak; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

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

Business

With the arrival of the Internet, the channel's hold over pricing is being broken. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

Foreign-controlled banks now hold over 40 percent of total Argentine bank deposits (65 percent of deposits that are in private banks). (references)

Spain

The leading foreign supplier is the European Union, whose members hold over 50 percent (51 percent in 2000) share of the import market. (references)

Lebanon

The capitalization ratio (total capital to total assets) remained stable at 6.4 percent between December 2000 and March 2001 due to weak profits in 2000. Most bankers believe growth in the banking sector will not exceed ten percent in 2001. Commercial banks hold over 65 percent of Treasury bills. (references)

Minorities

Fiji

Ethnic Fijians communally hold over 80 percent of land, the government holds another 8 percent, and the remaining land is freehold. (references)

Political Economy

Kuwait

Deportation orders may be issued by administrative order, and detention facilities are estimated to hold over 250 potential deportees, some for up to 6 months. (references)

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

Expressions using "hold over": have a hold over smb. ♦ To hold over. Additional references.

Albanian

vazhdoj (carry on, carry over, continue, extend, go ahead, go on, hold on, keep, keep on, maintain, pick up, press on, proceed, prosecute, pursue, push on, run, spread), shtyj (actuate, adjourn, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hang up, hustle, impel, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), mbaj më gjatë, lë për më vonë (carry over). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إحتفظ بمنصبه (hold a post), ‏إحتفظ (hold, keep, possess, retain), ‏أجل (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, dignify, esteem, glorify, honor, honour, look up to, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put off, rather, refer back, regard, remit, set aside, shelve, stall, suspend, table, value, yep, yes). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отлагам (carry over, defer, delay, drive, lay over, leave over, lie over, postpone, precipitate, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put off, put over, respite, scrub, shelve, shunt, sidetrack, stay, suspend), забавям (arrest, cool, defer, delay, detain, hang up, hold back, hold off, inhibit, postpone, put back, put over, retard, set back, sidetrack, slacken, slow, slow down, stave off, steady), запазвам (keep, maintain, preserve, protect, reserve, retain, save, secure, set aside), задържам (apprehend, arrest, can, contain, detain, deter, entrap, hold, hold back, hold off, hold up, immobilize, inhibit, keep, keep away, keep back, keep down, occlude, press back, reserve, restrain, retain, trig). (various references)

Czech

přesunout (defer, dislocate, displace, download), odložit (abort, adjourn, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, put off, recess, reprieve, stay, suspend, take off, throw away), odklad (adjournment, deferment, delay, holdover, postponement, put off, respite, suspension), odkládat (postpone, procrastinate, temporize). (various references)

French

reporter, remettre, garder son poste, garder (hold). (various references)

German

vertragen (carry over, do with, endure, leave over, remand, stand, stomach, take, to tolerate, tolerate), verschieben (alter, change, change the position, defer, delay, dislodge, displace, faulting, leave over, move, postpone, put back, put off, relocate, relocating, remit, ruck up, scrolls, shift, shunt, slant, stagger, to displace, to relocate, traffic in, translating). (various references)

Greek 

αναβάλλω (adjourn, call off, cancel, defer, delay, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put off, respite, set back, stall, stay). (various references)

Hungarian

halogat (adjourn, be on the back burner, delay, hold in abeyance, play for time, postpone, procrastinate, stall, to defer, to procrastinate, to put off, to put over, to stall), valami fölé tart, maradvány (balance, pickings, relic, remain, remainder, remains, reminiscence, remnant, residue, residuum, surplus, survival, trace, vestige), másnaposság (hang over, hangover, morning after the night before). (various references)

Indonesian

pemenggalan. (various references)

Italian

temporeggiare (play for time, temporise, temporize), rinviare (adjourn, defer, lay by, postpone, put back, put off, recommit, refer, return, send back, throw back), rimandare (adjourn, bandy, delay, postpone, prorogue, put off, refer, send again, send back, shelve). (various references)

Manx

cummal er ash (hold back). (various references)

Pig Latin

oldhay overay

Portuguese

oferecer (bid, dedicate, donate, extend a welcome, give, hold forth, introduce, make an offer of, offer, perform, ply, proffer, put on the stage, tender), adiar (adjourn, defer, delay, drive, postpone, put off, respite, shelve, stay, suspend, wait, waive). (various references)

Romanian

amâna (adjourn, continue, dally, delay, drive, hang up, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, protract, put by, put off, refer, reprieve, shunt, stay). (various references)

Russian 

откладывать (adjourn, defer, deposit, hang up, hoard, lay aside, lay by, leave over, postpone, put aside, put away, put by, put off, put over, reserve, set apart, set aside, set by, shunt, store, suspend). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

produžiti (carry forward, elongate, extend, go on ahead, keep up, lengthen, proceed, prolong, prosecute, protract, resume), koji je zadržao položaj u novoj vladi, koji je ostao u novoj vladi. (various references)

Spanish

vestigio (hangover, relic, survival, trace, vestige, vestigium), reliquia (alive, relic, survival), posponer (carry over, leave over, postpone, put off, subordinate, table), aplazar (adjourn, defer, delay, postpone, procrastinate, put back, put off, put over, reserve, respite, sleep over, table, wait). (various references)

Swedish

uppskjuta (adjourn, carry over, defer, delay, launch, lay over, leave over, postpone, put off, remit, suspend). (various references)

Turkish

uzun sürmek, uzatmak (augment, belabor, belabour, continue, drag out, draw out, eke out, elongate, enlarge, extend, grow, hand, hold out, lengthen, outstretch, pad out, pass, prolong, protract, pull out, rack, reach, renew, repose on, sidestep, span, spin out, sprawl out, spread, stand over, stick, stick out, stretch, stretch out, turn to, wiredraw), uzamak (augment, continue, draw out, elongate, extend, grow longer, lengthen, linger, pull out, scat, stretch, sweep), ertelemek (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, hang up, hold off, lay aside, lay by, lay over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, put off, reprieve, reserve, respite, scrub, shelve, sidetrack, stay, suspend, table, waive). (various references)

Ukranian 

відкладати (adjourn, defer, delay, deposit, lay aside, lay past, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put aside, put over, respite, set apart, set aside, set by, stand over, suspend, wait). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: holdover, overhold.

-2 letters: holder, hooved, overdo.

-3 letters: dhole, dolor, drool, drove, holed, horde, hovel, hover, looed, loved, lover, older, oohed, rodeo, roved, voled.

-4 letters: doer, dole, door, dore, dove, held, helo, herd, herl, hero, hoed, hoer, hold, hole, hood, hove, lehr, levo, lode, lord, lore, love, odor, ohed, oleo, ordo, orle, over, redo, rode, role, rood.

+1 letter: holdovers, overholds.

+3 letters: overholding.

+4 letters: dichlorvoses, overlordship, overwithhold.

+5 letters: overlordships, overwithholds.

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