withhold
with hohld
- v hold back; refuse to hand over or share
The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room - v retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments
My employer is withholding taxes
- The theory holds that voters have a tendency to withhold their leanings from pollsters when they plan to vote for a white candidate instead of a black one.
- Cardinal Ottaviani has told the French bishops to withhold the imprimatur from any future works by Oraison on sex and psychoanalysis and to bar him from lecturing on morals in .
- Sunday Tribune journalist Suzanne Breen (right) congratulates her legal council Arthur Harvey QC outside the High Court in Belfast, after she won the right today to withhold .