as in to limit
to set bounds or an upper limit for
efforts to hold down taxes keep running up against the legislature's ingrained unwillingness to cut spending
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Recent Examples of hold down
Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
Pretrial release allows people to hold down jobs and care for their families instead of awaiting trial in jail.
—Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2023
If the hold-down clamp is not tightened properly, the battery could move, allowing the positive terminal to contact the clamp and short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire, the company said.
—CBS News, 1 Nov. 2023
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America’s employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, a total that economists say was held down by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
Pretrial release allows people to hold down jobs and care for their families instead of awaiting trial in jail.
—Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
SpaceX tested the water deluge system several times since April, including on a pair of hold-down engine tests with the Super Heavy booster in August.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2023
If the hold-down clamp is not tightened properly, the battery could move, allowing the positive terminal to contact the clamp and short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire, the company said.
—CBS News, 1 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hold down
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Voters in Petaluma and Cloverdale also overwhelmingly approved measures to extend their urban-growth line laws, limiting development on farmland around those communities, to 2050 and 2045.Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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But that sole reliance on blood severely limits what the vampires can use for energy.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Another uncalled measure, Proposition 34, which aims to restrict how much some health care providers can spend on political campaigns, trailed with 49.1% support.Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Although the Supreme Court dismissed a case in June that sought to restrict access to mifepristone, the attorneys general of Idaho, Kansas and Missouri filed a similar suit last month.Randi Richardson, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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In the three months ending on Sept. 30, Berkshire shed roughly a quarter of its remaining stake in Apple to $69.9 billion — the fourth consecutive quarter of cuts to its holdings of the iPhone maker.Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2024
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In his first term, Trump jettisoned traditional norms around presidents walling off their personal interests and instead retained his business holdings — including a Washington, D.C., hotel where foreign leaders booked rooms.David Ingram, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Yet Harris’s momentum leveled off, the race tightened and anxieties rose.Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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But there are indications that the race between the parties is tightening further.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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Peyton Watson contested one of them to give Denver (7-3) a chance to break the tie.Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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Beyoncé topped out with 11 nominations, a new record for her (and breaking her out of a tie with husband Jay-Z for the most Grammy nods ever, at 99).Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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So many of these are small, rural counties with blue collar populations.NBC News, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Now, this is also a time when Trump is appealing to blue collar workers.ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Hold down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hold%20down. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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