VERB
- continue a term of office past the normal period of time
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intimidate somebody (with a threat)
She was holding it over him - keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time
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hold back to a later time
let's postpone the exam - hold over goods to be sold for the next season
How To Use hold over In A Sentence
- To gain and maintain his hold over the Company Sulivan had to become a formidable politician and he inevitably made many enemies.
- You can hold over the matter till next week.
- Hold over BH for 5 minutes due to traffic.
- Bait balls will often hold over rocks, along channel edges and around coastal structure such as jetties and piers. ESPNsoccernet
- You can hold over the matter till next week.
- Not to hold over this note into the next measure.
- He had felt so ill as he climbed the narrow stairs the night before, the fever once again clamping its sweaty hold over his shoulders. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
- You can hold over the matter till next week.
- Well, even though he was executed 122 years ago, bushranger Ned Kelly continues to have a strange hold over the nation's imagination.
- Hold over BH until 1312 due to traffic congestion at " Rumet " point.