Usage of "hold-up" | TermGallery

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Taking or attempting to take something of value by force or threat of force or by putting the victim in fear.

Usage of hold-up in English

The major hold-up now is just how much power he would have. 
 The Guardian 

Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she was not aware of any hold-up. 
 Radio NZ 

But the most serious of all was the hold-up in Giant Gorge. 
 The Fourth Watch 

You opened the wicket and passed the money out to the hold-up. 
 The Price 

In the end the hold-up may simply be down to a technicality. 
 Reuters 

The hold-up of the train had taken place at a depressing spot. 
 Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge... 

There was a bit of a hold-up -some barrier wasn't working. 
 The Irish Times 

But development was delayed for years by legal disputes and permitting hold-ups. 
 Reuters 

Then, too, seems one of the hold-ups called the other one Crawford. 
 Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ... 

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Meanings of hold-up in English