hold off doing



hold off (from) doing something

to avoid doing something; to postpone doing something. Can you hold off from buying a new car for another few months? I will hold off firing him until next week.
See also: hold, off

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
IngeborgING-e-bawrk (German)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German
Estevo-Galician
BÍCh-Vietnamese
Zoran-Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian
Kiril-Bulgarian, Macedonian
Navin-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam