Usually means: Retains or keeps back something.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. withholds: Merriam-Webster
  2. withholds: Collins English Dictionary
  3. withholds: Vocabulary.com
  4. Withholds, withholds: Wordnik
  5. withholds: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. withholds: Wiktionary
  7. withholds: Dictionary.com
  8. withholds: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. withholds: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. withholds: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (withhold)

verb:  (transitive) To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
verb:  (transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
verb:  (intransitive) To stay back, to refrain.
noun:  (Scientology) An immoral action or condition (an overt) that has not been disclosed to others; the consciousness of such an action or condition.
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