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say it: HOHL-dowt
holdout is a noun meaning "a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms
“their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks”
a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal
the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for holdout come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.