as in to limit
to set bounds or an upper limit for
efforts to hold down taxes keep running up against the legislature's ingrained unwillingness to cut spending
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as in fastener
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Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 9 Sep. 2024
Instead, his best friend and business partner Matt Damon held down the fort for Artists Equity.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2024
IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2023
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Verb
Footage surfaced online of the 30-year-old receiver being handcuffed and held down on the ground by Miami-Dade police officers.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 9 Sep. 2024
Instead, his best friend and business partner Matt Damon held down the fort for Artists Equity.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2024
Noun
Then, presuming everything checks out, two hold-down mechanisms open and the little rover falls about a meter, in the low lunar gravity, to the ground below.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2023
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“Hold down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hold%20down. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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