Usually means: Delays or obstructions in progress.
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  1. hold-ups: Merriam-Webster
  2. hold-ups, hold-ups: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Hold-Ups, hold-ups: Wordnik
  4. hold-ups: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. hold-ups: Wiktionary
  6. Hold-ups: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  (UK, colloquial) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.

Similar:
suspenders, suspender belt, thigh-high, stirrup stocking, block and tackle, stockings, stockingfeet, brace, understocking, hose, more...

Opposite:
drop-offs, decrease, decline, reduction



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Similar:
suspenders, suspender belt, thigh-high, stirrup stocking, block and tackle, stockings, stockingfeet, brace, understocking, hose, more...

Opposite:
drop-offs, decrease, decline, reduction



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