Synonyms for hold off
hold off

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1. hold off

   Synonyms:
   avoid, hold aloof, keep aloof, keep away, keep clear, keep out, let alone, let be, retire, stand aside, stand away, stand back, stand off, withdraw

   Antonyms:
   arbitrate, intercede, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interpose, interrupt, meddle, mediate

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1. hold offverb

   resist and fight to a standoff

   "Dallas had enough of a lead to hold the Broncos off"

   Synonyms:
   hold back, wait

2. wait, hold off, hold backverb

   wait before acting

   "the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment"

   Synonyms:
   await, waitress, hold in, keep, restrain, hold back, hold, look, check, conceal, retain, contain, keep back, forbear, wait, stop, expect, arrest, turn back

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1. Todd Rosenbluth:

   The Federal Reserve's citing of disappointing economic data in its recent decision to hold off raising fed funds rate, investors have been focusing on the safety of investment-grade bond funds.

2. Colin Jost:

   Colin Jost does not believe you. Colin Jost thinks you’ve been to all the websites, colin Jost thinks you should hold off on sending out those wedding invites.

3. Al Green:

   I should not hold off, we should go forward as expeditiously as possible and we should do so because on yesterday we convicted the President... The condemnation was a conviction. Today we have the opportunity to punish, as a result of what we did yesterday, the President suffers no harm, he doesn't have to pay any fine, he's not going to lose his job. But today we have the opportunity to punish.

4. Philip Wee:

   Assuming the Xi-Trump meeting takes place next month, no one expects a trade deal, if any, to roll back existing tariffs but to hold off Trump's threat to hit a 25 percent tariff on the remaining $325 billion of Chinese goods.

5. Mohamed El-Erian:

   The Fed's decision to hold off on a rate hike reflects the extent to which it is worried about further destabilization in global financial condition spilling back and undermining the U.S. recovery, they are reluctant to add to international financial fragility - and they wish to limit adverse spillback to the U.S. economy.