hold up

Word family nounholderholdingholdallholdbackholderbatholdfastholding companyholding patternholdoutholdoververbhold

Examples from the Corpus

hold up• They should have finished that job on Friday - what's holding them up?• Why don't we use some of these pieces of wood to hold it up?• Her stubbornness on this one issue is holding the whole deal up.• He was arrested and charged with holding up a cab driver.• The peace talks are being held up by continued fighting on the border.• I won't hold you up - I can see you're in a hurry.• We got held up in traffic and missed the show.• We can't knock that wall down. It's the one that holds up the house.• These poles hold up the outer part of the tent.• The men who held up the store were wearing Halloween masks.• Get a move on, you two! You're holding up the whole queue!• The only thing holding the wall up was a frail-looking section of scaffolding.• Protesters held up work on the new road.

ˈhold-up noun [countableC]

1 DELAYa situation that stops something from happening or making progress 延误，耽搁 SYN delay

traffic hold-ups on the highway

公路上的交通堵塞

Despite the odd hold-up, we finished on time.

尽管偶尔有些阻滞，我们还是准时完成了。

2 informalSTEAL an attempt to rob a place or person by threatening them with a weapon 持械抢劫 SYN robbery

a bank hold-up

银行持械抢劫案

→ hold up at hold1

Examples from the Corpus

hold-up• It came about one day that he had no money to play, and he committed a hold-up in a store.• A man was shot dead in a hold-up at a downtown bank.• People are afraid to use the buses because of armed hold-ups.• The model 214-2F research biomass monitor has increased sensitivity, improved long-term stability and reduced effect of gas hold-up in fermenters.• At Trenton there was one last hold-up.• There was one hold-up after another and all the time Clift became more and more frail.• It was an uneasy switch from the difficulties of homeowners to a light-hearted story about hard-up baboons staging hold-ups of passing cars.• Hakkar admitted he took part in the hold-up, but denied having fired a gun.

From Longman Business Dictionary

hold up phrasal verbphr v [intransitiveI]FINANCE

if a price, value etc holds up, it stays at or near the same level, especially when it was expected to fall

Copper prices held up surprisingly well during the recession.

→ hold

hold-upˈhold-up noun [countableC]TRANSPORTMANUFACTURING

a delay, for example in transport or production

motorway holdups

单词	hold up
释义	hold up Word family nounholderholdingholdallholdbackholderbatholdfastholding companyholding patternholdoutholdoververbhold Examples from the Corpus hold up• They should have finished that job on Friday - what's holding them up?• Why don't we use some of these pieces of wood to hold it up?• Her stubbornness on this one issue is holding the whole deal up.• He was arrested and charged with holding up a cab driver.• The peace talks are being held up by continued fighting on the border.• I won't hold you up - I can see you're in a hurry.• We got held up in traffic and missed the show.• We can't knock that wall down. It's the one that holds up the house.• These poles hold up the outer part of the tent.• The men who held up the store were wearing Halloween masks.• Get a move on, you two! You're holding up the whole queue!• The only thing holding the wall up was a frail-looking section of scaffolding.• Protesters held up work on the new road. ˈhold-up noun [countableC] 1 DELAYa situation that stops something from happening or making progress 延误，耽搁 SYN delay traffic hold-ups on the highway 公路上的交通堵塞 Despite the odd hold-up, we finished on time. 尽管偶尔有些阻滞，我们还是准时完成了。 2 informalSTEAL an attempt to rob a place or person by threatening them with a weapon 持械抢劫 SYN robbery a bank hold-up 银行持械抢劫案 → hold up at hold1 Examples from the Corpus hold-up• It came about one day that he had no money to play, and he committed a hold-up in a store.• A man was shot dead in a hold-up at a downtown bank.• People are afraid to use the buses because of armed hold-ups.• The model 214-2F research biomass monitor has increased sensitivity, improved long-term stability and reduced effect of gas hold-up in fermenters.• At Trenton there was one last hold-up.• There was one hold-up after another and all the time Clift became more and more frail.• It was an uneasy switch from the difficulties of homeowners to a light-hearted story about hard-up baboons staging hold-ups of passing cars.• Hakkar admitted he took part in the hold-up, but denied having fired a gun. From Longman Business Dictionary hold up phrasal verbphr v [intransitiveI]FINANCE if a price, value etc holds up, it stays at or near the same level, especially when it was expected to fall Copper prices held up surprisingly well during the recession. → hold hold-upˈhold-up noun [countableC]TRANSPORTMANUFACTURING a delay, for example in transport or production motorway holdups
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