Used in a Sentence

withholding

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for withholding.

Editorial note

The original Times author (if i remember right) claimed rampant tip-withholding, but you are claiming the ad itself demonstrates wage theft, and it doesn't mention tip withholding.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of withholding gathered in one view.

noun

The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.

noun

The tax so deducted, and paid to local or national government.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for withholding.

noun

The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.

noun

The tax so deducted, and paid to local or national government.

Example sentences

1

The original Times author (if i remember right) claimed rampant tip-withholding, but you are claiming the ad itself demonstrates wage theft, and it doesn't mention tip withholding.

2

They have a long history of withholding information from customers in the face of security incidents and outages.

3

As this account attests, in the biomedical field cargo cult science (withholding data) and politics are rife.

4

There was an earlier plea for a new trial and claims of a Brady violation (withholding this?

5

The end user gains nothing by withholding training data because the regular expression is deterministic.

6

This sounds like an excuse that could justify withholding just about any choice from users.

7

I am simply withholding judgment on the efficacy of direct marketing until I see some solid evidence.

8

Apart from the withholding of income tax (which I was already counting), I think they only pay social security (23.75%).

9

In other words, companies can systematically distort the free market in labour by withholding information about the true salaries it offers from its employees.

10

They handle all necessary tax withholding in countries which require it.

11

I'm not sure I would ding a prospective employer for withholding that information.

12

You're collecting, withholding and pooling money from users.

Quote examples

1

They hint at withholding data ("The same logic applies when it comes time to splitting our data into training and validation sets"), though they don't outright mention cross-validation.

2

Addressing the "need to eat" problem though, the government would have a much better leverage withholding the money to buy up food in bulk than let individual buyers with no leverage negotiate their own prices.

Proper noun examples

1

Withholding training data is only useful for understanding the heuristics of the generator and tuning it.

2

Withholding key information, which is so ubiquitous now, is a great disservice to the scientific community.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use withholding in a sentence?

The original Times author (if i remember right) claimed rampant tip-withholding, but you are claiming the ad itself demonstrates wage theft, and it doesn't mention tip withholding.

What does withholding mean?

The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.

What part of speech is withholding?

withholding is commonly used as noun.