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UK
/wɪðhˈəʊldɪŋ/
]
[ US /wɪθˈhoʊɫdɪŋ/ ]
[ US /wɪθˈhoʊɫdɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of deducting from an employee's salary
- income tax withheld from employees' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer
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the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control
I resented his withholding permission
there were allegations of the withholding of evidence
How To Use withholding In A Sentence
- [443] We could use the term partial defeater 'for defeaters that don't require withholding B but do require holding it less firmly. Warranted Christian Belief
- A village postwoman has been branded a ‘nasty busy body’ for deliberately withholding mail from a resident who was an ‘outsider’.
- That meant withholding some of the farmers' irrigation water and sending it downriver - at least until the drought broke.
- Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. Robert Frost
- During the trial, the prosecution was accused of withholding crucial evidence from the defence.
- Furthermore, the tax evasion commitor consists of only the taxpayer, not the withholding agent.
- In the vast majority of cases the court would reach a clear view one way or the other whether the specified conditions for withholding bail were satisfied. Times, Sunday Times
- A fourth mistake was the withholding of our wheat from world markets in 1929, with a view to forcing - one might as well be frank - higher prices, and the associated policy of cutting adrift from the established wheat trade selling agencies in Great Britain and elsewhere. Our National Task
- Harry Reasoner, the lead attorney for the insurers, said they were justified in withholding payment on several grounds.
- The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room
