hold the line
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
hold the line on prices; keep the price of something constant
Types & categories
- conserve hypernym
Sense 2 verb
hold the phone line open
Please hang on while I get your folder
Types & categories
- await hypernym
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | conserve |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | telephony |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | phone |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | await |