Usually means: Resist or endure under pressure.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word hold out:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. hold out: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hold out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hold out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hold out: Vocabulary.com
  5. hold-out: Wordnik
  6. hold out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hold out: Wiktionary
  8. hold out: Dictionary.com
  9. Hold Out (Sam Fender song), Hold Out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. hold out: Rhymezone
  11. Hold Out: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. hold out: Free Dictionary
  13. hold out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. hold out: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. hold out: Legal dictionary
  3. hold out: Financial dictionary

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

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

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hold out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hold out: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hold out)

verb:  (transitive, literally) To hold (something) out; to extend (something) forward.
verb:  (figuratively) To offer, present (a hope, possibility, opportunity etc.)
verb:  (idiomatic, often with for) To wait, or refuse in hopes of getting something better (from a negotiation, etc.)
verb:  (idiomatic) To survive, endure.
verb:  (idiomatic, usually with on) To withhold something.
verb:  (transitive) To set aside something or save it for later.
noun:  Alternative spelling of holdout. [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.]

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