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If an offer or invitation still holds, it is still available for you to accept. Does your offer still hold?

If an argument or theory holds, it is true or valid, even after close examination. Today, most people think that argument no longer holds Hold up means the same as hold. Democrats say arguments against the bill won't hold up

If you ask someone to hold, or to hold the line, when you are answering a telephone call, you are asking them to wait for a short time, for example so that you can find the person they want to speak to. Could you hold the line and I'll just get my pen A telephone operator asked him to hold. = hold on

If you hold something such as a train, a lift, or an elevator, you delay it. A London Underground spokesman defended the decision to hold the train until police arrived

If you hold to a promise or to high standards of behaviour, you keep that promise or continue to behave according to those standards. Will the President be able to hold to this commitment? = stick to

If something holds at a particular value or level, or is held there, it is kept at that value or level. OPEC production is holding at around 21.5 million barrels a day The Prime Minister yesterday ruled out Government action to hold down petrol prices The final dividend will be held at 20.7p, after an 8 per cent increase. provided the pound holds its value against the euro

If someone or something holds you to a promise or to high standards of behaviour, they make you keep that promise or those standards. Don't hold me to that

If you hold a sound or musical note, you continue making it. a voice which hit and held every note with perfect ease and clarity

If part of a structure holds, it does not fall or break although there is a lot of force or pressure on it. How long would the roof hold?

If laws or rules hold, they exist and remain in force. These laws also hold for universities

If you hold telephone calls for someone, you do not allow people who phone to speak to that person, but take messages instead. He tells his secretary to hold his calls

If someone holds you in a place, they keep you there as a prisoner and do not allow you to leave. The inside of a van was as good a place as any to hold a kidnap victim Somebody is holding your wife hostage Japan had originally demanded the return of two seamen held on spying charges

If you have a hold over someone, you have power or control over them, for example because you know something about them you can use to threaten them or because you are in a position of authority. He had ordered his officers to keep an exceptionally firm hold over their men

If a good situation holds, it continues and does not get worse or fail. Our luck couldn't hold for ever Would the weather hold?

If people such as an army or a violent crowd hold a place, they control it by using force. Demonstrators have been holding the square since Sunday