hold-up

Signification (Anglais)

1. (colloquial) A delay or wait.
2. (slang) A robbery at gunpoint.
3. The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
4. (in-plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
5. The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.
6. (Nigeria) A traffic jam.

Concepts

hold-up

agression

attaque

👊

embouteillage

braquage

Synonymes

delay

stop

🛑

stoppage

hindrance

holdup

halt

arrest

hold-up man

pause

postponement

robbery

hold up

impediment

intercept

interception

interruption

obstacle

paralysis

quit

rest

retardation

set-back

shutdown

shutoff

standstill

support

suspension

sustain

tie-up

traffic jam

put out of action

poweroff

shuttingdown

bring to rest

motor stoppage

foot-dragging

retention volume

phase-down

throw-out of

engine cutout

adhesion

bear

🐻

catching

cease

cessation

crutch

🩼

cut-off

discontinuous

dwelling

holdfast

Traductions

rapina

atraco

rapina a mano armata

latrocínio

detención

سطو؛ سطو مسلح

rompimiento

Stockung

Étymologie (Anglais)

A deverbal from hold up.