holdout
Meaning
- One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned.
- A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted.
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Etymology
Deverbal from hold out.
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