Usually means: Maintain possession or position of.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hold: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hold, hold, hold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hold, hold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hold: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hold: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hold, hold: Wordnik
  7. hold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hold: Wiktionary
  9. hold: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hold: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hold: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hold: Dictionary.com
  13. hold (n.), hold (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hold: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hold (baseball), Hold (compartment), Hold (ship), Hold (song), Hold (telephone), Hold (title), Hold: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hold: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hold: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hold: Rhymezone
  19. hold: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hold: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hold: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hold: Free Dictionary
  23. hold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hold: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. hold: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Hold: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  7. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  8. Hold: Investopedia
  9. hold: Legal dictionary
  10. Hold: Financial dictionary
  11. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  13. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hold: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hold: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HOLD: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. hold: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hold: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hold, hold: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. hol'd, hold: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hold: Tennis Glossary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. hold: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Hold: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. hold: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. HOLD: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  4. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Hold: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To grasp or grip.
verb:  (transitive) To contain or store.
verb:  (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
verb:  (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
verb:  (transitive) To reserve.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
verb:  (transitive) To detain.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
verb:  (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
verb:  (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
verb:  (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
verb:  To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
verb:  (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
verb:  (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
verb:  (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
verb:  To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
verb:  To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
verb:  (archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
verb:  (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
verb:  To take place, to occur.
verb:  To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
verb:  (archaic) To derive right or title.
verb:  (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
noun:  A grasp or grip.
noun:  An act or instance of holding.
noun:  A place where animals are held for safety
noun:  An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
noun:  Something reserved or kept.
noun:  Power over someone or something.
noun:  The ability to persist.
noun:  The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
noun:  (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
noun:  (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
noun:  (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
noun:  (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
noun:  (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
noun:  The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
noun:  A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
noun:  (video games, dated) A pause facility.
noun:  The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
noun:  (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
noun:  (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
noun:  (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
adjective:  (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.

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