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• 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 .

• keep back
• deduct
• recoup

News & Articles

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• Bloomberg urges donors to withhold support from four Democrats
  NEW YORK, June 12 (UPI) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked major New York political donors Wednesday to withhold support from four Democrats who voted against background checks.
  June 12, 2013 - UPI
• McDermott: Withhold congressional paychecks until lawmakers raise debt ceiling
  WASHINGTON — With the federal government mere months away from possibly breaching the debt ceiling yet again, Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle and Sen. Barbara Boxer of California are proposing to withhold lawmakers’ paychecks until they vote to raise the borrowing limit. The two Democrats
  June 11, 2013 - Seattle Times
• Police ask public to withhold judgment in DUI case
  Police in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise are asking the public to withhold judgment about a man's arrest on a drunken driving charge though a breath-alcohol test showed he hadn't consumed any alcohol.
  June 11, 2013 - FOX 10 Phoenix

Quotes

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• Jeff Sessions in AFP
  As someone who cares deeply about our great heritage of law, I must withhold my consent,said Sessions.
• John Smoltz in USA Today
  Smoltz, who thanked the Braves and manager Bobby Cox in a statement, said, "I was going to withhold comment until the announcement of my signing with a new team, but I now feel the need to clear up any misconceptions and inaccuracies about the...
• Elon Musk in BusinessWeek
  It is disappointing that Ms. Goodling has decided to withhold her important testimony from the committee as it pursues its investigation into this matter, but everybody has the constitutional right not to incriminate themselves with regard to... Patrick Leahy http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leahy&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFcZSJmJ7wQO0GBByzBnDCGtMs8VA CNN http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/26/fired.attorneys/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHPR8MPSwgxFeGsLRlkPwfmUlWBjg Mar 26, 2007 110734 145386 withholding We are withholding their identities as we work with the relevant authorities to notify the families," Musk said in an e- mail.