Usually means: Refuse to give or disclose.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word withhold:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. withhold: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. withhold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. withhold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. withhold: Collins English Dictionary
  5. withhold: Vocabulary.com
  6. Withhold, withhold: Wordnik
  7. withhold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. withhold: Wiktionary
  9. withhold: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. withhold: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. withhold: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. withhold: Dictionary.com
  13. withhold: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. withhold: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Withhold: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. withhold: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. withhold: Rhymezone
  18. withhold: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. withhold: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. withhold: Free Dictionary
  21. withhold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. withhold, withhold (nuclear): Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Health Insurance Glossary (No longer online)
  2. withhold: Legal dictionary
  3. withhold: Financial dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. withhold: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
verb:  (transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
verb:  (intransitive) To stay back, to refrain.
noun:  (Scientology) An immoral action or condition (an overt) that has not been disclosed to others; the consciousness of such an action or condition.

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