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holding off (on)verbpresent participle of hold off (on) to assign to a later timewe held off on accepting the invitation in the hopes that something better would come along deferring, delaying, holding over, holding up, laying over, postponing, putting off, putting over, remitting, shelving suspendinghesitating, pausing, stayingdetaining, retarding, slowingextending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretching (out)waiting acting, dealing (with), deciding (upon), doing, working (on) |