holdback noun 13verb 1forms 3 noun13 •A restraint; a device or part of a device that operates to restrain.The holdback hook assembly is made up of four key parts : the missile holdback hook (1), missile latch finger (4), missile latch lever (6) and eccentric shaft (B). — 1972 •A portion of the money that is owed to someone which is not paid, but instead held as security, until the entire job or contract has been successfully completed.Holdback arrangements may be viewed as the reverse of kickbacks. There were nine retailers who reported a holdback requirement by finance companies. — 1968 •Money that a buyer does not pay at the time of purchase, but which is paid afterward (sometimes in installments, sometimes on a specified date).Accordingly, credit enhancement was provided by a 7.5 percent "holdback" whereby the purchasers withheld 7.5 percent of the purchase price at the closing. — 1991 •A legal provision for restricting distributions to a trust beneficiary under certain conditions.A holdback provision gives the trustee discretion to hold back funds upon the occurrence of specified events. — 1998 •The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing. Also, the strap or part of the harness so used.The object of my improvement is to obtain a draft and holdback attachment for hames which will be more durable and answer the purpose better than the old two-pronged staple or the circular clip. — 1871 •The difference between a dealer's cost and the manufacturer's suggested retail price.Holdback was instituted in the early 1960s, we understand, as a way to ensure that dealers would have money on hand to pay Uncle Sam at tax time. — 1993 •A time period during which sales of a specific security or commodity cannot occur.Rather than disseminating each individual change, the holdback timer permits CBOE to wait until multiple market participants have adjusted their quotes and then to disseminate a new quotation. — 2007 •A time period after the first release of a creative work before it can be distributed or adapted to other channels.It called for a rights framework which delivered a "clear, consistent and timely rights regime for all platforms" and minimum holdback periods. — 2007 •Income that is set aside for eventualities such as customer returns, seasonal fluctuations, performance bonuses, unexpected costs, etc.The community Opportunity Bonus Fund incorporates a $250 million bonus pool, which would operate in the same manner as the original performance holdback. — 1995 •A designation of some details about a crime that the police deliberately do not reveal to the public.The probative value of this kind of evidence is often overstated, as holdback evidence can be transmitted to the accused via prior interactions with the police. — 2020 •A random subset of a body of data that is not used in the main analysis, but rather reserved for other purposes, such as validation.In the holdback methods, a sample of the observations is withheld (the holdback sample) while the remaining observations are used to train a neural net. — 2016 •The withholding of permits to extract a natural resource.You have the question of the supposed holdback of the allocations, and yet the law allows you and the President to alter the allocation without a change of law for 90 days. — 1974 •A delay in the movement of solute due to the slowing effects of diffusionHoldback is easier to determine than the dispersion coefficient, and where scatter of data is serious, mixing properties are easier to describe in terms of holdback. — 1969 verb1 •To set up a holdback.Only 20 percent of the "debtors' attorney" judges normally don't holdback, compared to 44 percent of the other cohort. — 1993 formsholdbacked · holdbacking · holdbacks
