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Hold over   /hoʊld ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Hold over

verb
1.
Intimidate somebody (with a threat).
2.
Hold over goods to be sold for the next season.  Synonym: carry over.
3.
Keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time.
4.
Continue a term of office past the normal period of time.
5.
Hold back to a later time.  Synonyms: defer, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table.





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"Hold over" Quotes from Famous Books



... smooth-seeming surface of things Lenox was more than ever aware of her curious detachment, of a disturbing sense that his hold over her was still an imperfect thing. Nor was he altogether mistaken. Quita had not yet learned to give herself royally. The fact that she had put her heart and life into the hands of the man she loved did not prevent her from going her own way; from ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver
... the floor covered by a slippery black mould that could not be swept off, and which they would have to remove by scrubbing. Here was a new dilemma. They had no bucket in which to bring water from the river, and their gourds would not hold over a quart each, which would make the task of bringing it from such a distance ...
— The American Family Robinson - or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West • D. W. Belisle
... have to beg and implore her," she said to herself, anticipating the objections of her stepmother. "I shall only have politely to let her suspect that such a thing may have occurred as having had a listener at a door. I paid dearly enough for this hold over her. I have no scruple ...
— Jacqueline, v2 • Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)
... 2 or 3 cm. in diameter with calcium chloride, CaCl2, and connect one end with a generator of H (Fig. 15). At the other end have a philosopher's lamp-tube.Observing the usual precautions, light the gas and hold over it a receiver, till quite a quantity of moisture collects. All water was taken from the gas by the dryer, CaCl2. What is, therefore, the product of burning H in air? Complete this equation and explain it: 2H O ? Figure 16 shows a drying apparatus arranged ...
— An Introduction to Chemical Science • R.P. Williams
... sye there was a double line of observation balloons along the lines, ours and theirs up to the 30th of June. The next morning not a Boche balloon was to be seen. Our plynes put their eye out in a single afternoon. Since that time, we hold over them in the air. Ah! There are the heavies coming up now. The full chorus will be ...
— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor


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