holdback
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: accounting
business
finance
Etymology: From hold + back.
Compound parts: hold
back
Inflected forms:
form: holdbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: holdbacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: holdbacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: holdbacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: holdbacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A restraint; a device or part of a device that operates to restrain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
The holdback hook assembly is made up of four key parts : the missile holdback hook (1), missile latch finger (4), missile latch lever (6) and eccentric shaft (B).
If the forward holdback tension is not within allowable limits, the TV will display a flagging or tearing picture at the top of the screen.
Accessories for the catapulting system include a tension bar and a catapult holdback bar.
Before going through the buckle, make sure the holdback strap passes over the trace so the trace is encompassed by the holdback strap.
gloss: A restraint; a device or part of a device that operates to restrain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
The object of my improvement is to obtain a draft and holdback attachment for hames which will be more durable and answer the purpose better than the old two-pronged staple or the circular clip.
A holdback for harness comprising a holdback strap and a socket or thimble consisting of a tapering leather body portion, a core tapered within the smaller end of the body portion, a tapered metal tip fitted to the core and receiving and engaging the adjacent end of the leather body portion and clamping the same on the core and fastening devices piercing the tip and the leather body portion and securing the same to the core.
gloss: A delay in the movement of solute due to the slowing effects of diffusion
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Holdback can also be seen as protecting solute-free water against invading solute.
The concepts of preferential flow and mobile and immobile water are related to each other and to that of the holdback of solute against leaching.
gloss: Income that is set aside for eventualities such as customer returns, seasonal fluctuations, performance bonuses, unexpected costs, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The community Opportunity Bonus Fund incorporates a $250 million bonus pool, which would operate in the same manner as the original performance holdback.
When there is a holdback provision, the percentage placed in reserve by gainsharing plans typically ranges from a low of 10 percent to as much as 70 percent.
The customer return privilege period expires and the remaining holdback is paid to the transferor.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Holdback arrangements may be viewed as the reverse of kickbacks. There were nine retailers who reported a holdback requirement by finance companies.
The proposed amendments to the regulation provided a procedure whereby the contractor's 10 percent holdback would be retained by the mortgagee to be paid into an escrow account, minus certain amounts, when the project has been substantially completed, as determined by HUD .
If the contract contains a fee holdback provision, the total amount of fee earned will be recorded as expenses, but vouchering will be subject to the holdback provisioned.
In this situation, the courts reason that a holdback, which attempts to limit interim compensation allowances to the probable pro rata distribution that administrative expense claimants would receive at the end of the case, would likely prevent those administrative claimants not eligible for interim compensation from being unduly prejudiced by the interim allowances made to professionals.
Escrows are similar to holdbacks in purpose, but the difference is that the money is paid to an independent third party at closing and held in trust.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
The simplest way for the buyer to obtain protection is to agree on a holdback. This means that the buyer on closing only pays part of the purchase price and retains additional installment(s) for a certain period of time.
Most M & A deals include a holdback, or an amount the buyer withholds from the seller for a period of time just in case the company has some sort of problem (called a breach) after the deal closes.
gloss: The difference between a dealer's cost and the manufacturer's suggested retail price.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The discount holdback is a part of the overall discount enjoyed by all dealers of Dodge vehicles, and it is inconspicuously noted on each invoice that petitioner receives. The purpose of the discount holdback is to place Dodge dealers in a better competititve position with their rivals by placing an artifically high floor on the invoice cost of new vehicles and making it appear that each vehicle costs the dealer more than it actually does.
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.
As you will see, most manufacturers have holdbacks. Take the invoice and subtract the holdback to find the starting price of the car.
gloss: A time period during which sales of a specific security or commodity cannot occur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Rather than disseminating each individual change, the holdback timer permits CBOE to wait until multiple market participants have adjusted their quotes and then to disseminate a new quotation.
Chang initially signed documents including a Purchase and Sale Agreement (Agreement) and Memorandum of Agreement (Memorandum) that provided for a 12-month holdback period for the $5 million, but instructed L.A. Pacific employee Eddy Chao that the holdback period must be extended to 60 months.
The underwriters undoubtedly require that Portfolio Comapany and each major holder of Portfolio Company restricted stock (and possibly each holder who was offered the opportunity to participate in the SEC registration, whether or not such holder actually does sell in the offering) agree not to sell additional Portfolio Company stock (including under SEC Rule 144) for a specified (and often lengthy, e.g., 180-day) period after the underwritten IPO (a "holdback period"). Indeed a registration rights agreement (often entered into years earlier when PE/VC and others made their original invesments in Portfolio Company stock (other than in the underwritten IPO) during any such underwriter's holdback period.
gloss: A time period after the first release of a creative work before it can be distributed or adapted to other channels.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It called for a rights framework which delivered a "clear, consistent and timely rights regime for all platforms" and minimum holdback periods.
Reserved rights are often subject to holdback provisions . A holdback provision requires a copyright or other rights owner to refrain from licensing certain rights for a limited period of time .
That said, some contracts will require a minimum number of hours before the 'day-after' window takes effect –some will clearly require a 24-hour holdback, but others may only require two hours (allowing a full premiere block).
gloss: A legal provision for restricting distributions to a trust beneficiary under certain conditions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If such a holdback provision applies to income being paid from a life estate power of appointment trust (or to the exercisability of the general power of appointment of such a trust), which has been created either to qualify for the marital deduction or the orphan's deduction, obviously such a holdback clause will disqualify the property in a trust for the deduction.
A holdback provision gives the trustee discretion to hold back funds upon the occurrence of specified events.
Depending upon the degree of discretion the settler wants to grant to the trustee, these holdback provisions may either permit the trustee to suspend distributions in the trustee's discretion (a permissive holdback) or require the trustee to suspend distributions (a restrictive holdback).
gloss: The withholding of permits to extract a natural resource.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
You have the question of the supposed holdback of the allocations, and yet the law allows you and the President to alter the allocation without a change of law for 90 days.
Thus far, the amount of environmental water recovered through conservation holdbacks has been relatively small.
gloss: A designation of some details about a crime that the police deliberately do not reveal to the public.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
The probative value of this kind of evidence is often overstated, as holdback evidence can be transmitted to the accused via prior interactions with the police.
The need to verify Mr. Big disclosures has helped make "holdback evidence” a routine part of homicide investigations.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Since the holdback sample has different random noise, its calculated error will begin to increase.
If the decision is made to replace any of the refusals with the holdback sample, then all of the holdback sample must be used to maintain a probability sample.
gloss: To set up a holdback.
pos: verb
examples: Only 20 percent of the "debtors' attorney" judges normally don't holdback, compared to 44 percent of the other cohort.
Trustee given power to holdback distributions if adverse to beneficiary's interest .
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: задръжка
roman: zadrǎžka
lang: Bulgarian
word: пречка
roman: prečka