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前置詞句

on hold

1. (idiomatic) Delayed; postponed; suspended.

   This project is on hold until we can get more information.

   • 2021 May 5, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Heathrow Western Rail Access scheme 'on hold'”, in RAIL, number 930, page 26:

     Plans to build a western rail route into Heathrow Airport have been put on hold, with Network Rail saying that staff working on the scheme have been moved to other projects.

   • 2025 May 13, Patrik Jonsson, “Beat cops to game wardens, Florida expands ‘army’ of immigration enforcers”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     A new law used to justify such arrests was put on hold by a federal judge in Miami on April 2, but that didn't stop Florida police from continuing to enforce it.

2. Waiting on a telephone call.

   I have been on hold for 45 minutes listening to a recording about how important my call is to them.

3. On reserve; being held for someone.

   I have a book on hold for me at the library.

4. Pertaining to a telephone hold state.
   • 1999, New Scientist:

     Now James Kellaris, a professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati, reports that the sexes respond differently to onhold music.

参考

• hold on

アナグラム

• hold on

動詞

onhold (third-person singular simple present onholds, present participle onholding, simple past onheld, past participle onheld or onholden) (rare, dialectal or poetic)

1. (transitive) To hold on (to).
   • 1882, Keningale Robert Cook, The king of Kent:

     She leaped and trembled; still onheld his gripe, And gnawed her waning life.

   • 2008, An Apple A day:

     Because of economic downturn, I onhold my dream first and use my lovely office's notebook IBM Thinkpad T60P as my best friend.

2. (intransitive) To hold on.
   • 1919, Middlesbrough (England). Education Committee, Proceedings:

     Resolved, That the Minutes of the Meeting of the Secondary Committee onheld 8 July, 1918, be and they are hereby confirmed.

派生語

• onholding

アナグラム

• hold on