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say it: with-HOHL-ding
withholding is a noun meaning "the act of deducting from an employee's salary". It carries 3 recorded senses.
income tax withheld from employees' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer
the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control
“I resented his withholding permission”
“there were allegations of the withholding of evidence”
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 withholding 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.