holdback

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A restraint; a device or part of a device that operates to restrain.

   “In a furnace, the combination of an upwardly moving holdback and a downwardly moving dumping grate, of interconnected means for conjointly elevating said holdback and partially lowering said grate and then oscillating said grate without appreciably moving said holdback.”

2. isim The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing. Also, the strap or part of the harness so used.

   “All those devices, which heretofore have been constructed, wherein a spring has been applied as part of the holdback, are subject to derangement, owing to the uncertain action of the spring employed, and a liability of the sprint to get out of order, thus detracting from their efficiency.”

3. isim A delay in the movement of solute due to the slowing effects of diffusion

   “Holdback is easier to determine than the dispersion coefficient, and where scatter of data is serious, mixing properties are easier to describe in terms of holdback.”

4. isim Income that is set aside for eventualities such as customer returns, seasonal fluctuations, performance bonuses, unexpected costs, etc.

   “The community Opportunity Bonus Fund incorporates a $250 million bonus pool, which would operate in the same manner as the original performance holdback.”

5. isim A portion of the money that is owed to someone which is not paid, but instead held as security, until the entire job or contract has been successfully completed.

   “Holdback arrangements may be viewed as the reverse of kickbacks. There were nine retailers who reported a holdback requirement by finance companies.”

6. isim Money that a buyer does not pay at the time of purchase, but which is paid afterward (sometimes in installments, sometimes on a specified date).

   “Accordingly, credit enhancement was provided by a 7.5 percent "holdback" whereby the purchasers withheld 7.5 percent of the purchase price at the closing.”

7. isim The difference between a dealer's cost and the manufacturer's suggested retail price.

   “Holdback was instituted in the early 1960s, we understand, as a way to ensure that dealers would have money on hand to pay Uncle Sam at tax time.”

8. isim A time period during which sales of a specific security or commodity cannot occur.

   “Schedule 1.02 should list each Shareholder and the Shareholder's proportional share of the Purchase Price, including the amounts scheduled to be distributed from the Escrow Fund after the holdback period has expired.”

9. isim A time period after the first release of a creative work before it can be distributed or adapted to other channels.

   “It called for a rights framework which delivered a "clear, consistent and timely rights regime for all platforms" and minimum holdback periods.”

10. isim A legal provision for restricting distributions to a trust beneficiary under certain conditions.

    “A holdback provision gives the trustee discretion to hold back funds upon the occurrence of specified events.”

11. isim The withholding of permits to extract a natural resource.

    “It is only a holdback for resource development, and with the increasing use by people of these resources, it is coming to a critical stage, Mr. Secretary, it doesn't seem to me that we are going to be able to hold back too much longer.”

12. isim A designation of some details about a crime that the police deliberately do not reveal to the public.

    “The result was less a policy as much as a culture of information management among the inner sanctum of detectives working an open and active case, on in which there were strict safeguards placed around what became a nearly universal policy in holdback evidence.”

13. isim A random subset of a body of data that is not used in the main analysis, but rather reserved for other purposes, such as validation.

    “In the holdback methods, a sample of the observations is withheld (the holdback sample) while the remaining observations are used to train a neural net.”

14. fiil To set up a holdback.

    “Only 20 percent of the "debtors' attorney" judges normally don't holdback, compared to 44 percent of the other cohort.”