hold down
Example Sentences
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The duo will hold down the fort from Times Square beginning at 5 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times
When you are rushing around, trying to do everything for your children and hold down a demanding job, how are there enough hours in the day?
From BBC
Plus, the Federal Reserve plans to buy hundreds of billions of short-term Treasury bonds annually, another move that would pump money into the financial system and hold down rates.
From Barron's
The move in silver is ‘less of a one-off spike and more of a long overdue repricing of an asset that had been held down for more than a decade.’
From MarketWatch
If employees can do a task faster and more productively with a better tool, they can hold down costs, and demand for these services might rise over time.
From MarketWatch
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