Definitions for holdouts

holdouts hold·out

Spelling: [hohld-out]
IPA: /ˈhoʊldˌaʊt/

Holdouts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 206 anagrams from letters in holdouts (dhloostu).

Definitions for holdouts

noun

  1. an act or instance of holding out.
  2. a person who delays signing a contract in hopes of gaining more favorable terms:
  3. a person who declines to participate, cooperate, agree, etc.:

Origin of holdouts

First recorded in 1890-95; noun use of verb phrase hold out

Examples for holdouts

A better machine than the Kepplinger, of San Francisco, holdout.

But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.

Whilst shuffling the cards, the dealer causes the holdout to add the 'odd' card to the pack.

The earliest account we have of anything in the holdout line is the cuff-box described by Houdin.

From the holdout, the cord which works the slide is led to the elbow-joint, where it passes around a pulley (c).

The next form of holdout which falls beneath our notice is that known as the 'Cuff holdout.'

This holdout works in shirt sleeves and holds the cards in the same place as a cuff-pocket.

Jeremy Piven was the holdout, but he has been convinced (and will be paid handsomely for it).

Griesa said that those bankers had to divide the money equally among all bondholders--holdout and not--if it paid anyone.

The effect of the holdout when used in the game of Poker, as described in the last chapter, is to work the top-stock for draught.

Word Value for holdouts
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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