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Definitions: Holdout |
HoldoutNoun1. A negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms; "their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks". 2. A refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal. 3. The act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Most of the holdout devices used today have been invented in the 19th century.
The main purpose of any holdout device is to temporarily hold a card out of the game, so that the cheat may retrieve it at some later convenient time. Only one card out of play can tremendeously increase the odds of wining. Not only that the cheat knows the identity of this card (an advantage that no other player has) and knows that it couldn't possibly be dealt to any other player, but this card also serves as if an extra card was dealt to the cheat on every round. In effecft, this is as if the cheat was dealt a bonus card, so that he may decide which combination of cards he likes best and finally discard the unwanted one, only to possibly use it on the next round (or at least switch it for a better one).
Some of the most popular holdouts are:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Holdout."
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Ellen Levin | Not really. There were several jurors that were very adamant that he should have been found guilty of murder, and there was one juror who, I believe, and I was told that seemed to have a secret crush on him, and that she was perhaps the one holdout. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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the holdout | 2 |
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Words beginning with "holdout": holdouts. (additional references) | |
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"Holdout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Goldbourt, Halbouty, Halhoul, Hodoul, Holcot, Holgot, Poldauf. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "holdout" (pronounced hō"ldou't) |
| 3 | -d ou' t | handout, hideout, readout, standout. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-l-o-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: outdo. | |
-3 letters: dolt, doth, hold, holt, hood, hoot, loot, loth, loud, lout, thou, thud, told, tolu, tool. | |
-4 letters: dol, dot, duh, duo, hod, hot, hut, loo, lot, oho, old, ooh, oot, oud, out, tho, tod, too, udo. | |
-5 letters: do, ho, lo, od, oh, to, uh, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-h-l-o-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: holdouts. | |
+2 letters: adulthood, loudmouth, lustihood, outhowled. | |
+3 letters: adulthoods, clothbound, loudmouths, lustihoods. | |
+4 letters: buttonholed, foulmouthed, loudmouthed. | |
+5 letters: closemouthed, hemodilution, thousandfold, unorthodoxly. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- .-.. -.. --- ..- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01101100 01100100 01101111 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o l d o u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 006C 0064 006F 0075 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42817870818786 |
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