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hold up

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Examples from the Corpus
hold up• They should have finished that job on Friday - what's holding them up?• Why don't we use some of these pieces of wood to hold it up?• Her stubbornness on this one issue is holding the whole deal up.• He was arrested and charged with holding up a cab driver.• The peace talks are being held up by continued fighting on the border.• I won't hold you up - I can see you're in a hurry.• We got held up in traffic and missed the show.• We can't knock that wall down. It's the one that holds up the house.• These poles hold up the outer part of the tent.• The men who held up the store were wearing Halloween masks.• Get a move on, you two! You're holding up the whole queue!• The only thing holding the wall up was a frail-looking section of scaffolding.• Protesters held up work on the new road.
ˈhold-up noun [countableC]
1  DELAYa situation that stops something from happening or making progress 延誤，耽擱 SYN delay
traffic hold-ups on the highway
公路上的交通堵塞
Despite the odd hold-up, we finished on time.
盡管偶爾有些阻滞，我們還是準時完成了。
2  informalSTEAL an attempt to rob a place or person by threatening them with a weapon 持械搶劫 SYN robbery
a bank hold-up
銀行持械搶劫案
→ hold up at hold1
Examples from the Corpus
hold-up• It came about one day that he had no money to play, and he committed a hold-up in a store.• A man was shot dead in a hold-up at a downtown bank.• People are afraid to use the buses because of armed hold-ups.• The model 214-2F research biomass monitor has increased sensitivity, improved long-term stability and reduced effect of gas hold-up in fermenters.• At Trenton there was one last hold-up.• There was one hold-up after another and all the time Clift became more and more frail.• It was an uneasy switch from the difficulties of homeowners to a light-hearted story about hard-up baboons staging hold-ups of passing cars.• Hakkar admitted he took part in the hold-up, but denied having fired a gun.
From Longman Business Dictionary
hold up phrasal verbphr v [intransitiveI]FINANCE
if a price, value etc holds up, it stays at or near the same level, especially when it was expected to fall
Copper prices held up surprisingly well during the recession.
→ hold
hold-upˈhold-up noun [countableC]TRANSPORTMANUFACTURING
a delay, for example in transport or production
motorway holdups

hold up

hold up
phrasal verbphr v 
a) SUPPORT/HOLD UP hold something ↔ up to support something and prevent it from falling down 支撐某物
The roof is held up by massive stone pillars.
屋頂是用幾根粗大的石柱支撐住的。
b) DELAY hold somebody/something ↔ up to delay someone or something 耽擱某人/阻延某事
Sorry I’m late – I was held up at work.
對不起我來晚了，我給工作耽擱了。
n Grammar
Hold up is often passive in this meaning.
c) hold up somethingSTEAL to rob or try to rob a place or person by using violence （試圖）搶劫
Two armed men held up a downtown liquor store last night.
昨晚兩名持槍男子搶劫了市中心一家售酒的商店。
→ hold-up
d) SAMEto not become weaker 保持強壯
His physical condition has held up well.
他的身體保養得非常好。
Examples from the Corpus
hold up• They should have finished that job on Friday - what's holding them up?• Why don't we use some of these pieces of wood to hold it up?• Her stubbornness on this one issue is holding the whole deal up.• He was arrested and charged with holding up a cab driver.• The peace talks are being held up by continued fighting on the border.• I won't hold you up - I can see you're in a hurry.• We got held up in traffic and missed the show.• We can't knock that wall down. It's the one that holds up the house.• These poles hold up the outer part of the tent.• The men who held up the store were wearing Halloween masks.• Get a move on, you two! You're holding up the whole queue!• The only thing holding the wall up was a frail-looking section of scaffolding.• Protesters held up work on the new road.
→ hold up at hold1(PHRASAL VERB)
ˈhold-up nounhold up
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