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word: hold up
meaningVi: To wait or delay.
pos:
  - verb
source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
draft: false
updatedAt: 2026-06-06
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# hold up nghĩa là gì?

**hold up** — To wait or delay.

## verb
- To wait or delay.
  - *Hold up a minute. I want to check something.*
- To impede; detain.
  - *I've got to get to work now. Why are you holding me up?*
  - *What is holding up traffic?*
- To impede; detain.
  - *The guy tried to hold up a bank.*
  - *"Down, Dom!" he cried, "throw yourself down! Break in, Guido. Break in the door. We are held up!"*
- To support or lift.
  - *Hold up the table while I slide this underneath.*
  - *In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.*
- To support or lift.
  - *His lectures held up Napoleon as an example of the phenomenon.*
  - *held up for public ridicule*
- To support or lift.
  - *I don't think he's holding up his end of the bargain.*
- To persist.
  - *hold up to scrutiny*
  - *hold up to heavy use*
- To persist.
  - *For what will the World say; Why could not he hold up? What made him come on so heavily, but that he wanted either Management or Metal*
- To persist.
  - *how're you holdin up?*
- To persist.
  - *Bride of Frankenstein is an old film, but it holds up.*

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*Nguồn: [Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hold_up).*