withholding
(noun) the act of deducting from an employee’s salary
withholding
(noun) the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control; “I resented his withholding permission”; “there were allegations of the withholding of evidence”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
withholding
present participle of withhold
withholding (usually uncountable, plural withholdings)
The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.
The tax so deducted, and paid to local or national government.
Source: Wiktionary
With*hold", v. t. [imp. Withheld; p. p. Withheld, Obs. or Archaic Withholden (; p. pr. & vb. n. Withholding.] Etym: [With again, against, back + hold.]
1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser.
2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good. Milton.
3. To keep; to maintain; to retain. [Obs.] To withhold it the more easily in heart. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
