How to pronounce “holdback”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A restraint; a device or part of a device that operates to restrain.
• A delay in the movement of solute due to the slowing effects of diffusion
• (accounting) Income that is set aside for eventualities such as customer returns, seasonal fluctuations, performance bonuses, unexpected costs, etc.
• 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.
• 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).
• (car sales) The difference between a dealer's cost and the manufacturer's suggested retail price.
• A time period during which sales of a specific security or commodity cannot occur.
• A time period after the first release of a creative work before it can be distributed or adapted to other channels.
• A legal provision for restricting distributions to a trust beneficiary under certain conditions.
• The withholding of permits to extract a natural resource.
• A designation of some details about a crime that the police deliberately do not reveal to the public.
• 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.
• [Verb]
• (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To set up a holdback.

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