to hold someone who is lying down, so that they cannot move
to hold something so it does not move upwards
to prevent something from developing, or to prevent someone from doing what they want
to stop prices or numbers from rising
to stop someone from having their freedom or rights
to succeed in keeping a job
Anything that can infer enough talent and ability to hold down a job.
Four people held him down.
Half of them have never held down a proper job.
Holes would have had to be drilled, staples used to hold down the wire.
She proved that being a woman wouldn’t hold her down.
The number of emotional cripples and close to certifiably insane people who hold down top jobs and run business empires -- it's amazing.
The regime had been holding down its people for years.
They put a cloth on the grass and stones on the edge to hold it down.
What we can do is put him behind the wheel, wedge his foot on the gas, and hold down the clutch and put the Jeep in gear.
a deal to hold down wages and prices
holds down
holding down
held down
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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