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hold down
verb as in bottle up
verb as in check
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verb as in constrain
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verb as in curb
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verb as in hold back
verb as in hold back/hold off
verb as in inhibit
verb as in manage
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verb as in pin
verb as in restrict
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verb as in suppress
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verb as in weigh down
verb as in withhold
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Example Sentences
That has helped hold down prices even as demand rose.
Money-management and communication problems are two of the easiest rabbit holes to fall into as a married couple, especially two people who are under a lot of stress raising kids and holding down jobs.
Now, he and his wife, also an audiology graduate student, each hold down multiple part-time jobs to pay their tuition, rent and other costs.
The Fed’s large holdings influence the market by arguably holding down some Treasury yields.
And, holding down the heart of the film with a gravity it probably doesn’t deserve, is Redford, running his techno-security squad with just the right balance of seen-it-all cynicism, idealism and swagger.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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