Synonyms for withholding
with·hold·ing

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1. withholdingnoun

   the act of deducting from an employee's salary

   Synonyms:
   withholding tax

2. withholding tax, withholdingnoun

   income tax withheld from employees' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer

   Synonyms:
   withholding tax

3. withholdingnoun

   the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control

   "I resented his withholding permission"; "there were allegations of the withholding of evidence"

   Synonyms:
   withholding tax

Matched Categories

1. • Deduction
   • Retention
   • Tax

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1. withholdingnoun

   Synonyms:
   restraint, repression, abstinence, refusal, denial

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1. List of paraphrases for "withholding":

   retention, restraint, deduction, holdback, deductions, retainage, concealment, impoundment, retaining, non-disclosure, detent, hold, withheld

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How to use withholding in a sentence?

1. Josh Geltzer:

   But does it appear suspicious given the damning nature of what was withheld, and the current government's obvious motivation for withholding it.

2. Lee Zeldin:

   When Adam Schiff is cherry-picking leaks, when hes withholding facts, when hes outright lying -- let the American ppl know that.

3. Dan Fogelman:

   I think there's like 10 critics out there who want things to be withholding and bleak, but I think the average human being and the average human experience is wildly big and emotional and dramatic, i mean, I think we have parents and families and kids. We go to weddings, we go to funerals, we have births of children. We love.... The human experience is like, it is like a beautiful, sad, emotional experience.

4. Bill Taylor:

   I have concern about a precedent having been set where we withhold security assistance to a country that is in a fight, is in a battle, is in a war. ... In particular with the Russians, one of our two big adversaries we have identified. So I have very great concern about that and I would be concerned about that in the future, i am concerned about a withholding of assistance for reasons that are not related to national security.

5. Steven Molo:

   They're withholding the evidence and we want it produced, we want the full production.