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hold-down
 
Noun hold-down has 1 sense
  1. hold-down - a limitation or constraint; "taxpayers want a hold-down on government spending"
    --1 is a kind of     limitation, restriction
    Derived form: verb hold down2
Verb hold-down has 2 senses
  1. hold down - keep; "She manages to hold down two jobs"
    --1 is one way to retain, hold, keep back, hold back
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. hold down - restrain; "please hold down the noise so that the neighbors can sleep"
    --2 is one way to limit, circumscribe, confine
    Derived form: noun hold-down1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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