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
- Far more serious than their sins against the basic rules of journalism is the corporate stranglehold over the major print and broadcast outlets.
- Melanie is thrust into an unfamiliar family full of secrets, where Uncle Phillip pulls the strings, creating a tyrannical hold over the household.
- The Servant is a savage indictment of the English class system, and its waning hold over all aspects of the working and cultural life of Britain.
- Many frequent visitors to the Doorley household over the years belonged to the Rosminian Order, also known as The Institute of Charity.
- It's always useful to have a hold over a fellow like Carl May.
- In December, the RBI placed limits on unhedged foreign currency positions that banks can hold overnight and also banned companies from cancelling and rebooking forward contracts with the same underlying exposure as part of measures to prop up the local currency. RBI: Forex Trading Curbs Temporary
- The blackmailer had a hold over him.
- The author has a considerable hold over the reading public.
- Over the summer we had a post about the power internet message boards hold over the making of movies.
- People will now vote for whom they are told, forced to vote by people who have a hold over them.
