Usually means: Delay or postpone an action.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. hold off: Merriam-Webster
  2. hold off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hold off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hold off: Vocabulary.com
  5. hold-off: Wordnik
  6. hold off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hold off: Wiktionary
  8. hold off: Dictionary.com
  9. hold off: Rhymezone
  10. hold off: FreeDictionary.org
  11. hold off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. hold off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. hold off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hold off: Legal dictionary
  2. hold off: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hold off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hold off: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hold off: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (hold off)

verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To delay (someone or something) temporarily; to keep at bay.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To delay commencing (an action until some specified time or event has passed).

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