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  • 71hold order — USA litigation hold, Also known as a legal hold, document hold, hold order or preservation order. An organization s order to preserve any data, records (electronic and paper) and materials that may be relevant to current or contemplated… …

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  • 72Hold The Line (feat. Cho PD) — Single par Brown Eyed Girls Face A Hold The Line (feat. Cho PD) Face B Free Music Sortie 3 mai 2006 …

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  • 73Hold on it’s coming — Hold on it s coming Album par Country Joe McDonald Sortie 1971 Enregistrement 1971 Durée 35:50 Genre Country rock, Pop rock Producteur …

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  • 74Hold the Lion, Please — (1942) est un cartoon réalisé par Charles M. Jones et opposant Bugs Bunny à un lion. Hold the Lion, Please …

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  • 75hold-up — ˈhold up noun [countable] TRANSPORT MANUFACTURING a delay, for example in transport or production: • motorway holdups * * * hold up UK US /ˈhəʊldʌp/ noun [C] ► a delay that prevents something from happening …

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  • 76hold down the fort — (UK hold the fort) ► WORKPLACE to deal with a situation, or do someone s job, while they are away: »She went off on vacation, leaving me to hold down the fort. »Will you hold the fort while I go for lunch? Main Entry: ↑hold …

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  • 77hold the line — ► COMMUNICATIONS to keep a someone waiting on the telephone: »Will you hold the line while I check my calendar? ► to continue to have an opinion, especially after a lot of argument: »She must hold the line against this kind of criticism. ► to… …

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  • 78hold-up — n 1.) a situation that stops something from happening or making progress = ↑delay ▪ traffic hold ups on the highway ▪ Despite the odd hold up, we finished on time. 2.) informal an attempt to rob a place or person by threatening them with a weapon …

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  • 79hold — ‘grasp, clasp’ [OE] and hold ‘cargo store’ [16] are not the same word. The verb goes back to a prehistoric Germanic source which meant ‘watch, guard’. This ancestral sense is preserved in the derivative behold [OE], but the simple verb hold,… …

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  • 80hold — Adj erw. obs. (8. Jh.), mhd. holt, ahd. hold, as. hold Stammwort. Aus g. * hulþa Adj. zugeneigt , auch in gt. hulþs, anord. hollr, ae. hold, afr. hold. Wohl mit Ablaut zu g. * halþa Adj. schräg, geneigt (s. unter Halde); vgl. l. cliēns Höriger,… …

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